EFCC Arrests Man Who Runs Yahoo Academy in Abuja
- Arrest 16 trainees, recovers two vehicles, laptops, phones, charms, incriminating documents, others
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), the commission said on Thursday, May 12 arrested a man who runs an academy where internet fraudsters are being trained to defraud people, along with 16 trainees at the academy.
The operatives of the Abuja zonal command of the commission following intelligence gathered about the activities of the academy arrested the man, whose name was given as Afolabi Samad, with the 16 trainees at the academy at Peace Estate, Lokogoma, a suburb of Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) which he was said to have rented for the sum of N3 million per annum.
It was gathered that Samad, who is an internet fraudster, opened the academy in a three-bedroom flat and was training young men in the art of defrauding people in the apartment.
According to a statement by the anti graft agency on Thursday, items recovered at the point of their arrest from him and the trainees included two vehicles: a Lexus SUV and a Toyota Highlander SUV; laptops, phones of various brands, charms, other incriminating documents, among others.
The statement noted that those arrested had given useful information to the operatives and they are expected to be charged to court at the conclusion of the investigations.
