40 Nigerians Arrested for fraud at Italian embassy

Forty intending immigrants to Italy have been arrested for various criminal offences, ranging from forging statement of accounts to submitting fake travelling document.

The intending travellers were arrested by operatives of the Special Fraud Unit (SFU) with the cooperation of the Consular-General of Italy in Lagos.
This was contained in a press statement made available to the Nigerian Tribune and signed by the image maker in charge of SFU, Ngozi Isintume-Agu.
According to the statement from the police, “the SFU of the force CID of Nigeria Police has arrested 40 suspects alleged to have committed various offences, ranging from forging of statement of accounts to faking of travelling documents, among others.”
 The statement continued: “The arrest of the suspects was made possible by a written request received from the Consular-General of Italy in Lagos to carry out needed investigations on the 40 suspects, who submitted fake and forged documents to Italian Embassy in a bid to travel out of the country.”
 The police at the SFU noted that “it has now become rampant for unscrupulous Nigerians to desire travelling out of the country through dubious means.”
The police further added that “in the course of their attempt to manipulate records and information, many reputable organisations, financial institutions and government parastatals’ records are falsified and tampered with.”
 The Commissioner of Police, SFU, Tunde Ogunsakin, stated that the network of crooks, who specialised in travel document racketeering had been nabbed and would soon face the wrath of the law.   
He advised Nigerians to avoid unscrupulous elements and follow due process when processing their travelling documents.