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Prince Hyacinth; Rex Emadifie Oghene, Odili Ifeayi and Uduak Samuel Williams are all University of Port Harcourt undergraduates and have been arrested for defrauding 15 victims to the tune of $111,500.<\/p>\n

Confirming their arrest, the Head, Media and Publicity, Dele Oyewale<\/p>\n

of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, (EFCC) said the quartet, were picked up on Thursday, 20th August, 2020 from their hideout at Chibiak Avenue, Elenpranwo, Ada George, Port Harcourt.<\/p>\n

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During the arrest, items recovered from them by the Port Harcourt Zonal office included: one Tecno Spark 4 belonging to Prince Hyacinth; one Iphone 11 Pro Max; two Infinix Hot and one apple Laptop belonging to Odili Ifeayi; one Iphone 7 and two Iphone 11 belonging to Rex Emadifie Oghene and one iphone 8+, one Acer Laptop and one HP Laptop belonging Uduak Samuel Williams.<\/p>

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It was learnt, according to preliminary investigation that the suspects are majorly involved in a romance scam and also act as pickers for an organized ring of fraudsters.<\/p>\n

While Prince Hyacinth paraded himself as a Spain-based Marine Engineer to bait his victims, Rex Emadifie Oghene posed as a rig Engineer based in the United State, the two other suspects, Odili Ifeayi and Uduak Samuel Williams presented themselves as Rig\/Marine Engineers to defraud their victims.<\/p>\n

Oyewale reiterated that the suspects would be charged to court as soon as investigation is concluded<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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