The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has announced the arrest of 43 individuals suspected of engaging in internet-related fraud.\n<\/p>\n
The operation was carried out on Friday by the operatives in the Toto area of Nasarawa State.\n<\/p>\n
According to the Commission, the arrests were made following credible and actionable intelligence which linked the suspects to a series of fraudulent activities conducted online.\n<\/p>\n
The intelligence led to a coordinated operation, during which a number of electronic devices and other items believed to be proceeds or tools of cybercrime were confiscated.<\/p>\n
The EFCC disclosed the development in a post shared on its official X (formerly Twitter) account on Saturday.\n<\/p>\n
The announcement was accompanied by images showing the suspects as well as various recovered items, which include mobile devices, motorcycles, and computing equipment. <\/p>\n
Items seized during the raid comprised 64 mobile phones, among them several high-end brands such as iPhones and Samsung models, an iPad, four laptop computers, and five motorcycles.<\/p>\n
The statement partly read,\u201dOfficers of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Friday, May 30, 2025, arrested 43 suspected internet fraudsters in Toto, Nasarawa State.\n<\/p>\n
\u201cTheir arrest followed actionable intelligence which linked them to fraudulent internet activities.\n<\/p>\n
\u201cItems recovered from them include five motorcycles, 64 mobile phones, four laptop computers and an iPad.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
The Commission further noted that investigations are underway to ascertain the full extent of the suspects\u2019 involvement in cybercrime networks.\n<\/p>\n
It added that once investigations are completed, the individuals in custody would be formally charged to court.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has announced the arrest of 43 individuals suspected of engaging in internet-related…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":146740,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3161],"tags":[63096,63097,63098,62773,63099,63100,3082,15323,63101,63102,63103,53,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-146739","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-internet","8":"tag-cyber-fraud-suspects","9":"tag-cybercrime-investigation","10":"tag-cybercrime-nigeria","11":"tag-efcc-arrests","12":"tag-efcc-operations","13":"tag-efcc-raid-nasarawa","14":"tag-internet","15":"tag-internet-fraud","16":"tag-internet-scam-arrests","17":"tag-nasarawa-crime-news","18":"tag-nigerian-cybercrime","19":"tag-technology","20":"tag-uk","21":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114602351168307880","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146739","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=146739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146739\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/146740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}