A 61 year old fake Assistant Inspector General of Police (AIG), Olakunle Adesola, has been apprehended for allegedly defrauding unsuspecting members of the public to the tone of N10million.
Olakunle, who was parading himself as AIG, EFCC Officer and Senior Legal Practitioner since 1980, succeeded in defrauding general public of the said amount of money.
The serial frauster was nabbed by the Federal Capital Territory Police Command following a series of petitions and reports at various formations/ units of the police command.
A release by DSP Josephine Adeh, Police Public Relations Officer FCT Command for the Commissioner of Police, CP Babaji Sunday, said that the acussed was arrested on the 20th November, 2022 by The command’s intelligence asset.
The PPRO disclosed that the imposter who resides at Liberty Estate by spring road AMAC Abuja, was arrested by the operatives attached to the Anti-violence Crime section of the State Criminal investigations Department (SCID ).
According to her, the accused was arrested at Our Lady Queen of Cathedral Church Area III where scores of unsuspecting worshippers have reportedly been defrauded.
She added that the suspect’s modus operandi is to impersonate a CP or AIGP, top-ranking EFCC Officials, and/or a Legal Practitioner who owns a law firm by the name, Dr.Kunle Adesola & Associates and successfully defrauded many.
She said that during interviewed, the suspect confessed to had been perpetrating the criminal enterprise as far back as the year 1980, and that upon the arrest, several forged documents, unissued police gear, tear gases, and forged academic documents from various learning institutions were recovered in his possession.
The PPRO advised the general public to be wary of such unscrupulous elements who parade themselves in such manner as the above or any other in order to defraud them.
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