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By Lucky Efese/ Timothy Omobude
BENIN CITY- Chinese National, Miss Wen Lin, has accused the Benin Zonal office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, of frustrating her case of fraud against some persons which she reported through a petition by her counsel, B.A. Iluobe Esq on the 28th of August.
Miss Lin had in the petition, said that Kester Ugo, whom she met online sometime in 2017, has variously swindled her about 160,000RMD and S530,000 respectively.
She said that Kester Ugo had pretended to be an American Military Officer and solicited her friendship which agreed with him without any doubt.
Lin further said that no sooner the friendship started than Kester Ugo in exercise of his smart game, lured her to give him the sum of 160,000RMD that he was passing through some financial stress.
Lin added that having considered the pressure of his demand, she then became suspicion that she might have been swindled and as such demanded his true identity wherein he (Kester Ugo) to cover up his criminal intents, later retorted that he was an orphan based in Ghana and that he and some of his friends were suffering to the extent that they couldn't eat well.
The Chinese national asserted that having heard about their precarious situation in Ghana, forgave him and asked him not to refund the 160,000RMD he stylishly collected from her.
She said she continued to be assisting him until he again told her to send her bank details to enable them get financial grant unknown to her it was a proceed from fraud expedition.
She explained that she was later arrested by her Chinese government immediately after she sent her details in which the proceed from fraud was paid and sent to him.
The Chinese Military personnel was also reduced in her rank and was compelled to retire prematurely and returned the said amount of money to the original owners even after she had transferred same to the fraudster, as she was not directly involved in the fraud.
She noted that she was barely recovering from the slumber when the said Kester Ugo called her again to say he was arrested in Accra, Ghana and that he needed a financial help and efforts to explain her predicament fell on deaf ears as the said Kester Ugo pressured her and it was on that point she then suspected foul play.
She maintained that to cover up his criminal tendencies, the said Kester Ugo sent a message telling her that he was going to mortgage his house in Accra, Ghana for the sum of $530,000 and she indicated interest and paid it for three years.
Lin said after the three years, she decided to visit Accra to take possession of the house but to discover that it was a fake transaction and her exigency influenced her to trace Kester Ugo to Benin City and met him after she had initially sold her house in China and also sent the proceed from the sales amounting to $530,000 US Dollars.
According to her ''while in Benin City, Kester continued to deceive her as he brought two native doctors to her hotel room and they started performing incantation which she wouldn't understand but they continued collecting money from her even when it was glaring that she had lost millions of dollars to them.
She gave details of accounts which she was compelled to transfer money to even in Benin to include Sterling Bank account number 0068311417 Cynthia Ugo, UBA account number 2263857702, Stanley Chunogu, OPAY account number 8180394134, Uzong Moses and OPAY account number 8074381256, Kester Ugo respectively.
She further said her counsel then caused a petition to be written and in the process Kester Ugo was invited to my hotel room where he was arrested by EFCC officials even without his cohorts.
It was disappointed that EFCC later released him on bail without arrest of his comrades in crime after the EFCC officials had compromised and more importantly, there was no proper investigations to unravel the circumstances.
Lin, while berating EFCC officials for breaching the oaths of office and allegiance they sworn to, however by this development appealed to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to beam his search light on the disgusting activities of the EFCC officials in the Benin Zonal office with a view to transferring the case file to the headquarters in Abuja and assign same for proper investigations and diligent prosecution of the culprits.
She added that she had lost hope on officials in Benin office as their compromising intents are suicidal and was not in line with the renewed hope initiative agenda of Mr. President.
Efforts to reach the EFCC zonal director, through the PRO, did not yield desired results as at the time of filing this report as the PRO through telephone conversation said that he was not aware of the matter but he was reminded of a petition by B A. Iluobe Esq to that effect.
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