Nigeria: EFCC Nabs Varsity Students Over N2.05 Billion Fraud

17 September 2013

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arrested two bureau de change operators Salihu Liman Mahmoud and Dan Asabe Ibrahim and two undergraduates of the University of Jos, Isaiah Friday and Azzaior Samuel, over an alleged N2.05 billion fraud.

A statement by the spokesman of the EFCC, Wilson Uwujaren, yesterday said the suspects specialise in breaking into the computer data base of financial institutions to carry out illegal posting of funds, and were arrested in Lagos and Jos.

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