The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC)
has revealed how a suspect, Adeolu Adeyanju, is still
defrauding unsuspecting individuals despite being put
behind bars.
According to a statement issued and signed by the
commission’s spokesman, Wilson Uwajeren, the suspect
impersonated the Director, Petroleum Products and
Marketing Company (PPMC) by cloning his phone number
and using same to instruct unsuspecting businessmen to
make payment for trucks of petroleum products to Detwinx
Global Services Limited.
After payment had been made, the suspect would transfer
about 80 percent of the money to a certain bureau de
change operator, and kept the rest in his bank account.
Uwajeren, who said that the EFCC was intensifying
investigations into the shady activities of the serial
fraudster, disclosed that Adeyanju’s fraudulent activities
from the prison yard came to fore after a complaint by one
of his victims.
He said: “His (Adeyanju’s) fraudulent activities out of the
prison yard, came to the fore after a complainant, a friend
to a Director at the Petroleum Products and Marketing
Company, PPMC, petitioned the EFCC that Adeyanju
conned him into paying him N9 million.
“His modus operandi was to clone the telephone number of
the director, using same to instruct the petitioner to “make
a payment for 50 trucks of petroleum products to Detwinx
Global Services Limited”, which he did.
“But on the receipt of the money, Adeyanju found a way to
get N7.4 million transferred to a bureau de change
operator, who converted same to its dollar equivalent, while
keeping N1.5 million in his personal account.
“The suspect is said to have several aliases with which he
uses to defraud people, and at the moment also has cases
pending before the Independent Corrupt Practices and
Other Related Offences Commission, ICPC, the Department
of State Services, DSS, and the Nigeria Police. He would be
arraigned as soon as investigations are concluded.”
