Woman jailed for forging NAFDAC employment letter to obtain UK visa

The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission, ICPC, has secured the condemnation of 1 Remilekun Temitope Balogun-Okedeyi for forging employment documents of the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, NAFDAC, to facilitate a fraudulent visa application.

ICPC said the condemnation followed investigations into a visa fraud strategy successful which the suspect falsely presented herself arsenic an worker of NAFDAC, utilizing forged employment and promotion letters, an individuality card, and an instauration missive purportedly issued by the agency.

The case, filed nether Charge No. ID/27346C/2025 (FRN v. Remilekun Temitope Balogun-Okedeyi), originated from a petition by the British Deputy High Commission that exposed a visa racketeering syndicate allegedly led by Olusegun Ojo Adigun.

Further investigations, according to ICPC, revealed that the syndicate was linked to astatine slightest sixteen visa applications and specialised successful facilitating question to the United Kingdom utilizing falsified supporting documents.

“At the centre of the lawsuit was the defendant’s deliberate misrepresentation of her employment status,” the Commission said.

ICPC said that its findings established that Balogun-Okedeyi was ne'er employed by NAFDAC, rendering each documents attributed to the agency, mendacious and misleading.<...