The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC,
has arrested a fake Journalist, Ernesto Chukwudum Chukwukamma for
alleged extortion, impersonation and obtaining N2,000,000.00 ( Two Million
Naira) under false pretence to influence the investigation of the sum of
$4,500,000,000.00 (Four Billion, Five Hundred Million United States
Dollars)alleged Petroleum Trust Fund, PTF, Fraud.
Chukwukamma, 63, was arrested for
allegedly threatening the life of a petitioner and receiving financial
inducement from him to stop the investigation of $4,500,000,000.00
alleged Petroleum Trust Fund, PTF, Fraud.
The suspect allegedly presented himself to
the petitioner as a journalist attached to the EFCC. He also allegedly
informed the petitioner that other Journalists who are members of a
Correspondence Chapel attached to the Commission had a report of how he stole
the sum of $4,500,000,000.00) in the process of winding up the activities
of the Petroleum Trust Fund.
Investigation revealed that the suspect had
already received the sum of N2,000,000.00(Two Million Naira) from the
petitioner and was arrested while attempting to withdraw the funds.
He will be charged to court upon conclusion of
investigation.
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