{"id":57340,"date":"2024-11-29T10:04:49","date_gmt":"2024-11-29T10:04:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=57340"},"modified":"2024-11-29T10:04:49","modified_gmt":"2024-11-29T10:04:49","slug":"enugu-police-detain-banker-nin-agent-in-n4m-fraud-scheme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/11\/29\/enugu-police-detain-banker-nin-agent-in-n4m-fraud-scheme\/","title":{"rendered":"Enugu Police Detain Banker, NIN Agent in N4m Fraud Scheme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Faith Adama<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Enugu State Police have arrested three individuals, including a former banker and a National Identification Number (NIN) agent, for a N4 million fraud involving identity theft.<\/p>\n<p>The suspects, Ndulaka Okwudili, Ifeanyi Nnamani, and Philip Ozogwu; were detained on October 18, 2024.<\/p>\n<p>They allegedly used the identity of an Australia-based Nigerian, Mba Ndukwe, to carry out the scam.<\/p>\n<p>Okwudili discovered personal items, including SIM cards, in a bag he found in 2023 and used one of the SIMs to access Ndukwe&#8217;s bank account.<\/p>\n<p>After several unauthorized withdrawals, Okwudili enlisted Nnamani to help reactivate the account, bypassing security protocols with a falsified NIN.<\/p>\n<p>Ozogwu altered the NIN details for a fee. The scam was uncovered when further withdrawals triggered alerts at the victim\u2019s bank, leading to police intervention.<\/p>\n<p>The suspects face charges of conspiracy, identity theft, and fraud. Okwudili and Nnamani have been remanded in custody, while Ozogwu was granted bail. Investigations\u00a0are\u00a0ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Faith Adama The Enugu State Police have arrested three individuals, including a former banker and a National Identification Number (NIN) agent, for a N4 million fraud involving identity theft. The suspects, Ndulaka Okwudili, Ifeanyi Nnamani, and Philip Ozogwu; were detained on October 18, 2024. They allegedly used the identity of an Australia-based Nigerian, Mba [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":57341,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57340","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\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57340"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57342,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57340\/revisions\/57342"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}