Couple dupe victims N20m in fake auction sales
The Lagos State Police Command has arrested a couple, Mr. Danladi
Wushishi, and Mrs. Ojuolape Wushishi, for allegedly duping unsuspecting
victims to the tune of N20m in fake auction sales in Lagos.
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Metro learnt that while Ojuolape was arrested on Wednesday, June
18, at Odeogbolu Street, Ijegun, Danladi, was apprehended at Allen
Avenue on Friday, June 25.
Our correspondent gathered that the
couple were arrested after a petition to the Commissioner of Police,
Umar Manko, from one of the victims, Mrs. Chinyere Uzorchukwu, who was
allegedly duped by the couple to the tune of N5m.
The Special Anti-Robbery Squad operatives had subsequently gone on the trail of the couple and arrested them.
The Wushishis had allegedly collected money from their victims under
the false pretext that they had a container load of goods meant for
customs auction sales at one of the customs terminals in Lagos.
It was further learnt that prior to the incident, the couple normally
took their victims to a fake customs’ warehouse in Ikorodu, Lagos, and
showed them containers which were sealed. However, after payments had
been made, the victims would wait endlessly expecting their goods, which
never came.
Apart from Uzorchukwu, the police said the couple
had also duped one Nkechi Anokwuru of about N3.5m and one Mr. Livinus of
about N19m in the fake auction deals.
Danladi, 46, who hails
from Niger State, confessed that he collected the money from the victims
without having any goods anywhere.
He said, “I am a
businessman and I am also a freight forwarder at the Tin Can Island,
Lagos. I have been doing this business for about eight years. The cargo
in question has an allocation paper that read clothes, but when I got
there, I saw that it only contained books.
“Then, I called one
Alhaji Issa, a clearing agent in Abuja, and he said the clothes could be
in another container. But he added that I would pay N3.5m to get it. I
then lied to my wife that I needed someone dealing in Okrika clothes as I
had clothes to sell. That was how we met Chinyere. We first collected
N1.35m from her, and then N800,000, and then N700,000.
“I also
collected N14m from Livinus in same transaction. But I never received
any container since I started collecting money from this people. My wife
is not aware that I was duping them.”
Ojuolape, 48, said her
husband dragged her into the fraud mess as she never knew that the
container they had in Ikorodu was empty.
She said, “I was a
trader at Ikotun. I usually bought goods (clothes) from Dubai and
London. I have been doing this business for about seven years. I usually
do it with my husband.
“About two months ago, my husband told
me that there is an auction paper for second-hand Okrika clothes. So, I
spoke with some people, who began to pay. But when we got to Ikorodu, we
discovered that no container had Okrika clothes.
Ojuolape, mother of four, added that when she discovered that there were no clothes, she warned her
7/21/2014
Couple dupe victims N20m in fake auction sales
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