ILLEGAL AUCTION: Customs Sues 6 Suspected Fraudsters

CG Customs, Alh. Abdullahi Inde Dokko.       

After months of operating illegally and allegedly duping unsuspecting members of the public through the creation of illegal customs auction website pages and sundry related offences, the Nigeria Customs Service has finally unmasked some of the alleged fraudsters.
The Zone ‘A’ Ikeja Command of the Federal Operations Unit (FOU) of the Customs Service (NCS) yesterday confirmed the arrest of six suspected fraudsters for forging customs documents on auction allocation.
The confirmation was contained in a statement signed by the Public Relations Officer of the command, Mr Uche Ejesieme.
It named the six suspects as: Abiodun Ojo, Uche Nwankpa, Charles Ali, Abutu Emmanuel, Sunday Nwaeze and Ngozi Ibe. They were arrested in Lagos and Idiroko in Ogun State.statement said that the Comptroller of the command, Mr Nuhu Mahmoud, announced the arrest, following the directive of the Comptroller General (CG) of Customs, Alhaji Dikko Abdullahi.
The statement cited their offences as counterfeiting and sealing of fake customs auction and counterfeiting of the official seal of the CG.
Other offences are counterfeiting seals of officers in charge of valuation at Apapa and Idiroko commands of the customs.
It stated that the offences contravened the provisions of Sections 162 (a), 162 (d) and 166 of the Customs and Excise Management Act Cap. C45 Laws of the Federation.
The statement said that the case had been adjourned till March 4.

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