Lagos State Police Command has discovered an illegal internet fraud training institutions, known as a “Yahoo School,” in the Iju area of the state.
The command’s spokesperson, CSP Benjamin Hundeyin made this known in a statement made available newsmen.
It was stated that four principal suspects were arrested alongside six trainees, among the trainees was an underaged boy identified as Minachi Udochukwu.
Hundeyin noted that preliminary investigations revealed that the principal suspects recruited the trainees from Anambra State, engaged them in internet fraud, and confiscated their earnings.
The four arrested Yahoo experts who were running the notorious school are Chibuike Ihejika, 23; Stanley Ihejika, 22; Obiora Oyediba, 26; and Emmanuel Oyedibe, 25.
Six suspected criminal trainees whom were undergoing training in cybercrime and fraud are Okorie Henry, Otoh Chisom, 20; Okeke Kwufrochikwu, 26; Uchenna Obeji, 26; Minachi Udochukwu, 12; and Chinedu Ukachukwu, 23.
Hundeyin also said that further investigations is ongoing to unravel the illicit business and arrest all other principal suspects for interrogation for them to face to be arraign in court.