CRIME: EFCC ARRESTS FAKE JOURNALIST OVER ALLEDGED EXTORTION, OTHERS
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By Aishat Momoh.no.
The Economic Financial Crimes Commission has arrested a 63-year-old man, Ernesto Chukwudum Chukwukamma, for alleged extortion, impersonation, and obtaining the sum of N2 million under false pretences to influence the investigation of a $4.5 billion alleged Petroleum Trust Fund fraud.
In a statement issued on Tuesday by the EFCC’s Head of Media and Publicity, Dele Oyewale, Chukwukamma was accused of threatening a petitioner and receiving financial inducement from him in exchange for halting the investigation into the alleged fraud involving $4.5 billion.
The suspect was said to have falsely presented himself as a journalist attached to the EFCC and claimed that other reporters affiliated with a correspondents’ chapel within the commission had obtained a report alleging that the petitioner had stolen the funds during the winding down of the PTF.
Oyewale said, “The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission arrested a fake journalist, Ernesto Chukwudum Chukwukamma, for alleged extortion, impersonation and obtaining N2,000,000.00 under false pretence to influence the investigation of the sum of $4,500,000,000.00 alleged Petroleum Trust Fund, PTF, Fraud.
“The suspect allegedly presented himself to the petitioner as a journalist attached to the EFCC. He also allegedly informed the petitioner that other journalists who are members of a Correspondence Chapel attached to the commission had a report of how he stole the sum of $4,500,000,000.00 in the process of winding up the activities of the Petroleum Trust Fund.
“Investigation revealed that the suspect had already received the sum of N2,000,000.00 from the petitioner and was arrested while attempting to withdraw the funds.”
Oyewale stated that the suspect will be charged in court upon the conclusion.
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