{"id":61054,"date":"2025-02-11T14:11:35","date_gmt":"2025-02-11T14:11:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=61054"},"modified":"2025-02-11T14:11:35","modified_gmt":"2025-02-11T14:11:35","slug":"interpol-arrests-36-in-nigeria-recovers-3-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/02\/11\/interpol-arrests-36-in-nigeria-recovers-3-million\/","title":{"rendered":"INTERPOL Arrests 36 in Nigeria, Recovers $3 Million"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Gabriella Ogbu<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>INTERPOL has announced the arrest of 36 individuals involved in various crimes, including fraud and human trafficking, in a coordinated operation with Nigerian security agencies.<\/p>\n<p>The operation also led to the recovery of $3 million and other key exhibits.<\/p>\n<p>The crackdown, involving 12 law enforcement agencies, targeted criminal operations across the country, with three arrests linked to sextortion and many others to cyber fraud.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, four suspects, including Olarenwaju Abdulai and Oluwafemi Abidoye, have been declared wanted.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities are calling on the public to assist in locating them.<\/p>\n<p>This operation underscores the growing collaboration between INTERPOL, AFRIPOL, and local Nigerian forces in the battle against organized crime.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Gabriella Ogbu INTERPOL has announced the arrest of 36 individuals involved in various crimes, including fraud and human trafficking, in a coordinated operation with Nigerian security agencies. The operation also led to the recovery of $3 million and other key exhibits. The crackdown, involving 12 law enforcement agencies, targeted criminal operations across the country, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":61055,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-61054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61054","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=61054"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61054\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61056,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61054\/revisions\/61056"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}