{"id":67391,"date":"2025-06-05T10:58:49","date_gmt":"2025-06-05T10:58:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=67391"},"modified":"2025-06-05T10:58:49","modified_gmt":"2025-06-05T10:58:49","slug":"efcc-declares-two-more-suspects-wanted-over-n1bn-cbex-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/06\/05\/efcc-declares-two-more-suspects-wanted-over-n1bn-cbex-fraud\/","title":{"rendered":"EFCC Declares Two More Suspects Wanted Over N1bn CBEX Fraud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Onyeanya Ebere<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), has declared two additional suspects wanted in connection with the alleged \u20a61 billion cryptocurrency fraud involving Crypto Bridge Exchange (CBEX).<\/p>\n<p>In a notice posted on its official X account on Tuesday, the commission identified the wanted individuals as Folashade Odelana and Bamidele Ayodele Abiodun.<\/p>\n<p>The EFCC urged members of the public with useful information on their whereabouts to report to any of its offices nationwide.<\/p>\n<p>With this announcement, the number of persons declared wanted in the CBEX case has risen to 10.<\/p>\n<p>The case came to public attention in April 2025 when CBEX users raised the alarm over their inability to access or withdraw their investments.<\/p>\n<p>The incident, which affected hundreds of Nigerians, sparked widespread outrage as many claimed to have lost substantial amounts to the failed cryptocurrency platform.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, the EFCC declared eight individuals wanted in connection with the case: Adefowora Abiodun Olanipekun, Adefowora Oluwanisola, Emmanuel Uko, Seyi Oloyede, Johnson Okiroh Otieno, Israel Mbaluka, Joseph Michiro Kabera, and Serah Michiro.<\/p>\n<p>The commission also secured arrest warrants for six suspects: Olanipekun, Oluwanisola, Uko, Oloyede, Avwerosuo Otorudo, and Chukwuebuka Ehirim.<\/p>\n<p>EFCC Chairman, Ola Olukoyede, has assured victims that the commission is making significant progress in its investigation and recovery efforts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Onyeanya Ebere &nbsp; The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), has declared two additional suspects wanted in connection with the alleged \u20a61 billion cryptocurrency fraud involving Crypto Bridge Exchange (CBEX). In a notice posted on its official X account on Tuesday, the commission identified the wanted individuals as Folashade Odelana and Bamidele Ayodele Abiodun. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":67392,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[181,172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67391","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\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67391"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67393,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67391\/revisions\/67393"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}