Police uncover N1b vehicle fraud in Lagos, recover exotic cars from Abuja, others

Lagos State Police Command has uncovered a conveyance fraud syndicate allegedly liable for defrauding car dealers of much than N1 cardinal done a bid of coordinated scams involving exotic vehicles.

Police said investigations into 3 related cases led to the betterment of respective vehicles that had been transported from Lagos to Abuja and different parts of the state and sold to unsuspecting buyers.

Speaking astatine the Command Headquarters successful Ikeja on Tuesday, the Commissioner of Police, Tijani Fatai, disclosed that detectives from the State Criminal Investigation Department, SCID, Panti, launched an probe pursuing complaints from aggregate conveyance dealers.

According to him, the investigations traced the operations to a syndicate allegedly headed by a fishy identified arsenic Otunba, who remains astatine large.

The constabulary identified Fatai Balogun, popularly known arsenic “Eleku,” arsenic a main suspect, portion Muritala, Bashiru, Segun and Otunba were besides linked to the transgression network.

CP Fatai explained that the archetypal lawsuit progressive Murital...