The Inspector General of Police Intelligence Response Team (IRT) Force Headquarters, Abuja, has tracked and arrested three suspects notorious fraudsters operating in Abuja. The police started trailing the suspects after several complaints received from well meaning individuals and highly placed personalities in Abuja of serious threat to their lives, intimidation and attempts to defraud them of huge sums of money.
According to the Force PRO, Don Awunah, the syndicate specialised in sending test messages and calling highly placed individuals such as ministers, senators, governors, captains of industry on phone to demand huge sums of money or else the victims should await a grievous consequences if they failed to comply.
When he was arrested, one of the suspects, 21-year-old Abdulrahman Shaibu, the leader of the gang, led the operatives and they equally arrested 47-year-old Isiaku Maheed Zanbuk and 35-year-old Hassan Haruna, who are also key members of the syndicate.
He said: “The three suspects confessed to the crime and explained to the investigators various roles played by each of them in the perpetration of this criminal act and other related crimes they have committed in the past.
Exhibits recovered from their possession included phonecontaining the SIM card /number used to threaten the complainant; copies of letters of threat to life addressed to highly placed Nigerians; copies of letters of fraud addressed to well meaning individuals and cooperate bodies.
Soliciting for monetary assistance for non existing tragedies and projects and list of names and phone numbers /contact of hundred of important personalities in public and private sectors in Nigeria. They will be arraigned in court on completion of investigation. “However, members of the general public are advised to be vigilant and report promptly any threat of this nature to the nearest police station.”