{"id":133582,"date":"2025-05-26T15:35:08","date_gmt":"2025-05-26T15:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/133582\/"},"modified":"2025-05-26T15:35:08","modified_gmt":"2025-05-26T15:35:08","slug":"efcc-arrests-49-for-internet-fraud-in-lokoja-recovers-pistol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/133582\/","title":{"rendered":"EFCC arrests 49 for internet fraud in Lokoja, recovers pistol"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Officers of the Ilorin Zonal Directorate of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) have arrested 49 suspected internet fraudsters in Lokoja, the Kogi State capital.<\/p>\n<p>A statement by the commission in Ilorin said they were arrested last weekend after actionable intelligence linked them to fraudulent internet activities.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe operations targeted multiple hideouts across the city with an unlicensed loaded pistol recovered from one of the suspects, who claimed during preliminary interrogation that he was a former cult member,\u201d the statement partly reads.<\/p>\n<p>Other items recovered from the suspects include high-end smartphones, laptop computers, and two luxury vehicles.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey will be charged to court upon the conclusion of the investigations,\u201d it assured.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Officers of the Ilorin Zonal Directorate of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) have arrested 49 suspected&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":133583,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3161],"tags":[15322,3082,58768,53,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-133582","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-internet","8":"tag-efcc","9":"tag-internet","10":"tag-internet-fraudster","11":"tag-technology","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114574873489687705","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133582\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/133583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}