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EFCC Smashes ‘419’ Syndicate that Defrauded a Professor

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has cracked down on a gang of fraudsters who specialise in exploiting personal data of foreign-based Nigerians to defraud their friends and relations back home. Four of the gang-members - ‘Hon.’ Oladipupo Adebayo, Bimbo Bilewu, Ibrahim Odunayo and Oyeleye Oluwatosi – are currently in the EFCC custody. Others are still at large. The Commission had launched a manhunt on the suspects after receiving a petition from one Prof Godwin Ekhaguere. The professor of Mathematics, who retired from the University of Ibadan, alleged in the petition that the…