Four Nigerians arrested for making money by allowing kidnappers use their bank accounts to receive ransoms

Four Nigerians arrested for making money by allowing kidnappers use their bank accounts to receive ransoms

SAHARA REPORTERS

The suspects are Chimerije Joshua Nwakpa, from Ebonyi State; Eze Levy Onyekachi, from Enugu State; Ezemma Maxwell Nnadozie, from Enugu State and Emmanuel Otubo, from Ebonyi State. 

The Delta State Police Command on Wednesday paraded four suspects arrested for working with kidnappers to collect ransom from kidnap victims. 

Parading the suspects at the state police command in Asaba, the state capital, the Delta State Police Public Relations Officer, SP Bright Edafe, said the arrested suspects sent their account details to kidnappers and after the victims paid the ransom, the suspects deducted between 15% and 40% as their share and then sent the balance to the kidnappers.

The police spokesperson said, “They work in conspiracy with kidnappers. They are always in touch with kidnappers.

Once they kidnap their victims and they are looking for where to send the ransom money to, they will contact this force man (pointing at one of the suspects) who contracts his friends to provide an account number where the ransom 

This Story Originally Appeared At The Sahara Reporters

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