{"id":70553,"date":"2025-07-14T08:16:17","date_gmt":"2025-07-14T08:16:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=70553"},"modified":"2025-07-14T08:16:17","modified_gmt":"2025-07-14T08:16:17","slug":"efcc-arrests-six-suspected-internet-fraudsters-in-uyo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/07\/14\/efcc-arrests-six-suspected-internet-fraudsters-in-uyo\/","title":{"rendered":"EFCC Arrests Six Suspected Internet Fraudsters in Uyo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>By Omoniyi David<\/p>\n<p>The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), has arrested six suspected internet fraudsters in Uyo, the capital of Akwa Ibom State.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement posted on its official X handle on Saturday, the agency said the arrests followed an intelligence-led operation carried out by operatives of its Uyo Zonal Directorate.<\/p>\n<p>According to the EFCC, four of the suspects were apprehended in the Ekamba Nsukara area, while the remaining two were picked up at Ekpri Nsukara, both in the Nwaniba axis of Uyo.<\/p>\n<p>Items recovered from the suspects include eight mobile phones and two laptops, believed to have been used in committing cybercrimes.<\/p>\n<p>The commission added that the suspects will be charged to court upon the conclusion of investigations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; By Omoniyi David The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), has arrested six suspected internet fraudsters in Uyo, the capital of Akwa Ibom State. In a statement posted on its official X handle on Saturday, the agency said the arrests followed an intelligence-led operation carried out by operatives of its Uyo Zonal Directorate. According [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":70554,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[181],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70553","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\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70553"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70556,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70553\/revisions\/70556"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}