I became scammed via a Yahoo boy – Babatunde Fashola
Minister of Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, has clarified recent Social Media reports that he changed into defrauded of the sum of N3.1 million by way of a Yahoo Boy who’s presently being prosecuted via the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). The Minister, who stated he neither knew nor transacted any business with the suspect that worried or would have caused his being swindled, defined that the quantity being stated became the well worth of Air Miles which the suspect derived from fraudulently hacking into his internet account and developing a false identification which he, amongst different benefits, used to buy first magnificence tickets to diverse parts of the world. “Having consistently hacked into the bills for over a period of six years, the suspect turned into tracked by the Minister until sufficient evidence become collected which was then exceeded on to the security agencies,” Fashola stated in a statement issued by means of his spokesman, Hakeem Bello. Malik Wakili become arrested through the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, for pulling an internet scam towards Fashola. The middle elderly man, who allegedly impersonated Fashola to steal N3,106,216 became arraigned earlier than a Federal excessive court in Lagos. Wakili changed into purported to have conspired with one Abdullahi Umar, who’s at large, “to fraudulently impersonate Mr Babatunde Raji Fashola, with reason to gain monetary gain for themselves”.
He was supposed to have transformed the total sum of N3,106,216, being the fee of the Air-miles Skywards Account Number EK248739282 of the minister with the Emirate Airline. The offence purported to have been committed by the defendant is opposite to sections 15(2)(a) and 27(1)(b) of the Money Laundering (Prohibition) Act and punishable beneath sections 15(3) and 22(3)(a) of the equal Act. He pleaded no longer guilty to the 3 counts.