By Praise Chinecherem
Police operatives from the Anambra command have arrested a syndicate, including two women for allegedly blackmailing their victims with nude pictures with intent to extort them.
Anambra state police Public Relations Officer, DSP Tochukwu Ikenga, in a statement said the suspects specialized in luring victims with love advances, and taking nude pictures of them, which they later use for blackmail.
According to him, the suspects would take the victim to a room, where he would be engaged in foreplay by one of the female suspects, with other accomplices forcing themselves into the room to take their nude pictures/videos for subsequent extortion.
He said, “Anambra State Police Operatives today, 18/8/2022, arrested Okechukwu Ogoejiofor (m) aged 36, Nonso Nwizu (m) aged 34, Esther Nwafor lfeanyichukwu (f) aged 21 and Obianuju Nduba (f) aged 20, at Ajakpani village, Umunya in Oyi LGA, for alleged conspiracy, demanding with menaces and stealing.
“Preliminary investigation revealed that the suspects used social media to lure their unsuspecting male victims into fake love/friendship affairs. They thereafter, take the victim to a room, where Obianuju Nduba engages the victim in a foreplay.
“The other members of the gang force themselves into the room, take nude pictures/videos of the victims, which they use to force the victims into transferring huge sums of money to them, with the threat of publishing same on social media if the the victims fail to comply and also dispossess the individual of his personal belongings.”
Ikenga said the suspects would be charged after investigations were concluded.
