23 -years-old arrested for attempting to defraud Otedola, Tinubu

Operatives attached to the Special Fraud Unit, SFU, Milverton Road, Ikoyi, have arrested a 23-year-old suspected fraudster, Babatunde Oyebode, for allegedly attempting to swindle oil moguls, Femi Otedola and Wale Tinubu.

In a statement, the Public Relations Officer (PRO) of SFU, Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) Lawal Audu, said the suspect has three different cases pending before the unit.

He said the first and second cases involve threat to life and fraud.

According to him, on October 19, 2016, one Dapo Balogun reported a case of extortion, blackmail and threat to life against the suspect.

“The complainant claimed that the suspect had posted on naijagistlife.com a story alleging that he had worked with former Petroleum Minister, Deziani Allison-Maduekwe, and that throughout the period, he had fraudulently acquired huge sum of money.

“The complainant also claimed to have received a mail from the suspect, informing him that he should pay an undisclosed amount running into millions to enable him remove the provocative story from the site. He also alleged that since then, he had been receiving threat messages from unknown callers demanding for huge sum or risk being kidnapped.

“The second complainant is Femi Otedola. He claimed that the suspect also posted an annoying story on the same naijagistlife.com alleging that he had being sleeping with different girls in his office” he added.

Police source said the suspect who claimed to be a secondary school leaver had also posted superimposed nude pictures of a lawyer on his website alleging that she had been sleeping with her boss and other clients.

“The suspect had demanded for N3.5million from the lawyer to enable him remove the provocative pictures from the site.
“The victim had allegedly told the suspect that she has no such money in her account and that the picture posted on the website had cost her, her job, her marriage and her social life.

“The female lawyer is among the three different persons who petitioned the suspect. The suspect has another fraud case pending at the Federal High Court” he added.

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