Police Arrest Three Suspected Fraudsters

Three suspected
fraudsters, who specialise in forging bank cheques to defraud account owners have been arrested in Lagos by operatives of the Special Anti Robbery Squad (SARS).
The suspects allegedly acted as travel agents operating with forged letters of introduction from government departments in Ekiti State to obtain visa for their victims.
The suspects-Kola Ademola (33), Kola Osho (57) and Adesola Oyedepo have made useful statements to the police on the alleged crime.
They allegedly stole cheques from unsuspecting persons and used some to withdraw money from their accounts.
They were arrested after a tip-off by detectives following a directive to the officer in charge of SARS, Abba Kyari, a superintendent (JP) by Commissioner of Police, Umar Monko.
Ademola was arrested with two dud cheques, while Osho was caught with forged documents bearing Ekiti State House of Assembly and Ministry of Finance and Economic Development.
The confession of Ademola, who was arrested in the pipeline area of the Abule-Egba, a Lagos suburb, led to Osho’s arrest at his makeshift office on Allen Avenue, Ikeja.
The suspect told operatives that they had connection with some insiders at the banks where they operated their withdrawals.
Ademola, who hails from Ikire, said he was an education consultant, who is married, with two children. He added that he holds a Degree in Business Administration from Obefemi Awolowo University, lle-lfe, where he graduated in 2006 and served his compulsory one year national service in Otupo, Benue state in 2007.
Confessing, he said: “I am an educational consultant. I enroll students for final examination and extramural classes. I also do tutorials. I met one Sampson who helped me to get the dude cheques. That is his job. These bank cheques are usually brought to us by our boys. They are original cheques and we deliver them to insiders who now work on them and deliver cash. But because of the present cashless policy, we can withdraw less than N100,000 which does not require confirmation or presence of signatories. This is the third I would be bringing to Osho, but he said he had no insider in that bank. The first cheque I gave him, he said the account did not contain money. The second  one too was not successful so we have not made any money on this thing.”
However, Oyedepo, an indigene of Ibadan, Oyo State, said “I am an accounting graduate from a polytechnic in Oyo State.