{"id":50614,"date":"2024-10-02T14:25:47","date_gmt":"2024-10-02T14:25:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=50614"},"modified":"2024-10-02T14:25:47","modified_gmt":"2024-10-02T14:25:47","slug":"efcc-arrests-24-internet-fraudsters-in-edo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/10\/02\/efcc-arrests-24-internet-fraudsters-in-edo\/","title":{"rendered":"EFCC Arrests 24 Internet Fraudsters In Edo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Benin Zonal Directorate of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission detained 24 accused online fraudsters in Benin City, Edo State.<\/p>\n<p>The EFCC revealed in a statement and images posted on X.com on Wednesday that the suspects were apprehended on Monday in various locations throughout Benin City.<\/p>\n<p>The statement partly read, \u201cThe suspects were arrested following actionable intelligence of their suspected involvement in computer-related fraud.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cItems recovered from them include 11 exotic cars, laptops, and phones. The sum of N160,000.00 (one hundred and sixty thousand naira) was also recovered from one of the suspects.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to the EFCC, the suspects have made relevant testimonies and will be charged in court once the investigations are done.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Benin Zonal Directorate of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission detained 24 accused online fraudsters in Benin City, Edo State. The EFCC revealed in a statement and images posted on X.com on Wednesday that the suspects were apprehended on Monday in various locations throughout Benin City. The statement partly read, \u201cThe suspects were arrested [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":41138,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[181,182],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","category-defence-and-security"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50614","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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50614"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50615,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50614\/revisions\/50615"}],"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=50614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}