{"id":65018,"date":"2023-06-26T13:25:04","date_gmt":"2023-06-26T13:25:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=65018"},"modified":"2023-06-26T13:25:04","modified_gmt":"2023-06-26T13:25:04","slug":"efcc-arrests-fake-senator-for-alleged-e5-7million-internet-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=65018","title":{"rendered":"EFCC arrests fake senator for alleged\u00a0\u20ac5.7million internet fraud"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"m#msg-f:1769767254852222937\" class=\"mail-message expanded\">\n<div class=\"mail-message-content collapsible zoom-normal mail-show-images \">\n<div class=\"clear\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<div class=\"gmail_quote\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<div class=\"gmail_quote\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<div class=\"gmail_quote\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<p>The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC has arrested a fake Senator,\u00a0Ifechukwu Tom Makwe for alleged\u00a0<span lang=\"en-NG\">\u20ac<\/span>5.7million (Five Million,\u00a0Seven Hundred Thousand euros) internet fraud.<\/p>\n<p>Makwe was arrested at the Guzape area of Abuja following credible\u00a0intelligence about his internet- related fraud activities.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-65031\" src=\"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/20230623_084404-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_65032\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-65032\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-65032\" src=\"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/20230623_082558-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-65032\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The suspected fake Senator and his &#8216;official&#8217; car.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Upon arrest, it was discovered that the suspect,\u00a0bearing many aliases (Fahad Makwe, Senator Tompolo, Tom Makwe, Dr. Bran), defrauded a Spaniard of Five Million, Seven Hundred Thousand Euros (\u20ac5.7million).<\/p>\n<p>Makwe allegedly claimed to be a US Federal Bureau of Investigation, FBI agent and diplomatic solicitor, and succeeded in defrauding his victim using fake identities.<\/p>\n<p>The suspect allegedly started defrauding the victim since 2013 when he first met her on social media.<\/p>\n<p>He\u00a0will be charged to court as soon as the investigations are concluded.<\/p>\n<p>\u25aa\ufe0e <strong>Wilson Uwujaren<\/strong>, Head, Media &amp; Publicity, EFCC<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC has arrested a fake Senator,\u00a0Ifechukwu Tom Makwe for alleged\u00a0\u20ac5.7million (Five Million,\u00a0Seven Hundred Thousand euros) internet fraud. Makwe was arrested at the Guzape area of Abuja following credible\u00a0intelligence about his internet- related fraud activities. Upon arrest, it was discovered that the suspect,\u00a0bearing many aliases (Fahad Makwe, Senator Tompolo, Tom [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":62638,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[904,2496,5931],"class_list":["post-65018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-fbi","tag-senator","tag-spain"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65018\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/62638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}