By A man who allegedly defrauded a US-based Nigerian woman has been arrested.
Assistant Inspector-General of Police in charge of Zone 2, AIG Ahmed Iliyasu said the suspect: Sylvester Ehiarinmian, 43, made love advances to marry Ope, 40, who is married with children.
The victim naively fell into the suspect’s scam net, as he allegedly swindled several millions of Naira and landed properties from her.
The victim, who owns a farm in the FCT, Abuja, reportedly had the intention of setting up other businesses in Nigeria and she was introduced to Ehiarinmian as someone capable of securing the farm.
They got in touch and the suspect was said to have made a love advance to her, with a promise to marry her, even though she claims he was aware she was married.
The victim however claimed that she “hypnotically” fell in love with the suspect who dispossessed her of both cash and property .
AIG Ahmed revealed that the suspect obtained the sum of $15000 dollars from her to procure visa for the victim’s sister, another $10,000 he proposed to purchase carpets for an office they both agreed to operate and N40 million for the establishment of a medical laboratory.
Having realised that she has been defrauded, Mary petitioned the Zone 2 Command, Onikan, Lagos, to fish out the suspect.
Ehiarinmian was arrested and the following items, belonging to the victim, were recovered: two Toyota Sienna Space buses (05/07 models) marked RBC 564 BB and YAB 101AZ; two unregistered Toyota Sienna Space buses (05/07 models); Toyota Highlander (01 model), with Registration No. YAB 768 SD; bunch of keys of a storey building comprising two bedroom flats and two self contained apartments.
