Fake Estate Agents Defraud Newly-Wed Couple And Pastor Of N3.9m

Five fake estate agents have been arrested by the Lagos State Police for defrauding a newly-wed couple and pastor of N3.9m. The fake estate agents who defrauded the newly-wed couple of  N900,000 being rent for a three-bedroom flat in the Ikeja area of the state, were identified as Elabor Aruoya, who allegedly posed as the landlord; Adeshina Abegunde, who provided the accounts used for perpetrating the fraud; Olamide Ojajinu, who took the victims to the house; Segun Adewale and Matthew Adeniyi.The suspects who became unreachable after the money was paid, were arrested after the state police command received a distress call from the newly-wed couple.

Parading the suspects, the Lagos State Commissioner of Police Zubairu Mu’azu said;

“Five suspects, Mathew Adeniyi, 42; Olamide Ojaniju, 42; Elabor Aruoya, 61; Adeshina Abegunde, 54; and Segun Adewale, were arrested. Investigation revealed that the same gang of fraudsters, had on Saturday, December 15, 2018, collected the sum of N3m as rent for a duplex in Ikeja GRA, in the same manner from the a pastor in Lekki. They will be charged to court.”