{"id":41125,"date":"2024-07-30T14:12:59","date_gmt":"2024-07-30T14:12:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=41125"},"modified":"2024-07-30T14:12:59","modified_gmt":"2024-07-30T14:12:59","slug":"efcc-nab-nine-for-internet-fraud-in-abuja","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/07\/30\/efcc-nab-nine-for-internet-fraud-in-abuja\/","title":{"rendered":"EFCC Nab Nine For Internet Fraud In Abuja"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has apprehended nine individuals suspected of involvement in internet fraud.<\/p>\n<p>They were arrested on Monday in the Wuye area of Abuja, following an intelligence-led operation by the Commission\u2019s Abuja Zonal Directorate.<\/p>\n<p>An EFCC statement posted on Tuesday via X said, \u201cOperatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Abuja Zonal Directorate, have arrested nine suspected internet fraudsters.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey were arrested on Monday, 29 July 2024, at Wuye axis of Abuja following credible intelligence on their suspected involvement in internet-related fraud.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>During the operation, several items were recovered from the suspects.<\/p>\n<p>The statement added, \u201cItems recovered from them include 19 phones, one car, four laptops and one iPad.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Commission further indicated its intention to pursue legal action against the suspects, stating, \u201cThe suspects will be charged to court as soon as investigations are concluded.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has apprehended nine individuals suspected of involvement in internet fraud. They were arrested on Monday in the Wuye area of Abuja, following an intelligence-led operation by the Commission\u2019s Abuja Zonal Directorate. An EFCC statement posted on Tuesday via X said, \u201cOperatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":41138,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-abuja-reports"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41125"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41139,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41125\/revisions\/41139"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}