{"id":65688,"date":"2025-05-13T11:31:20","date_gmt":"2025-05-13T11:31:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=65688"},"modified":"2025-05-13T11:31:20","modified_gmt":"2025-05-13T11:31:20","slug":"interpol-nails-two-in-big-fraud-bust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/05\/13\/interpol-nails-two-in-big-fraud-bust\/","title":{"rendered":"INTERPOL Nails Two in Big Fraud Bust"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Adenike Lawal<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The long arm of the law has caught up with two top suspects in a sweeping crackdown on cyber and financial crimes, as Nigeria\u2019s INTERPOL unit arraigned Canadian national Robert Harms and Nigerian citizen Okeke Ogechi Njaka in separate high-profile cases.<\/p>\n<p>Harms, accused of duping Tepison Enterprises in Akwa Ibom of two hundred and ten thousand dollars through a fake Canadian investment scheme, was nabbed at Nnamdi Azikiwe Airport while attempting to flee to Canada.<\/p>\n<p>Investigations revealed he forged loan documents and funneled the money through a Bureau de Change operator to Dubai.<\/p>\n<p>He is now remanded at the Uyo Custodial Centre, with his next court appearance set for May twenty.<\/p>\n<p>Njaka, a fugitive previously declared wanted, was re-arrested in Abuja after skipping bail. She faces charges of cyberstalking, defamation, and fraud.<\/p>\n<p>Her NGO, Ogechi Helping Hands Foundation, is also under investigation for allegedly scamming the public out of over four hundred and fifty million naira in the name of medical aid.<\/p>\n<p>Njaka\u2019s case is being heard today at the Federal High Court in Abuja alongside other co-defendants.<\/p>\n<p>The Nigerian INTERPOL NCB says the arrests mark a bold step in the nation&#8217;s rising efforts to clamp down on complex transnational crime networks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Adenike Lawal The long arm of the law has caught up with two top suspects in a sweeping crackdown on cyber and financial crimes, as Nigeria\u2019s INTERPOL unit arraigned Canadian national Robert Harms and Nigerian citizen Okeke Ogechi Njaka in separate high-profile cases. Harms, accused of duping Tepison Enterprises in Akwa Ibom of two [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":65689,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-65688","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\/65688","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\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65688"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65690,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65688\/revisions\/65690"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}