…as U.S. anti-graft agency arrests two more accomplices
The office of the Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF) has declared that it is yet to receive any official arrest warrant for embattled ‘super cop,’ Abba Kyari.
The declaration was issued on Tuesday by Umar Gwandu, Special Assistant on Media and Public Relations to the Minister of Justice and Attorney-General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami.
According to him, the office of the AGF has not received any official communication on the arrest warrant issued by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) on Kyari.
It will be recalled that an arrest warrant has been issued for the now suspended Deputy Commissioner of Police, Kyari, who was recently linked to fraud with Nigerian internet fraudster, Ramon Abbas, otherwise known as Hushpuppi.
Court documents disclosed that Otis Wright of the United States District Court for the Central District of California ordered the FBI to arrest Kyari and produce him in the United States for his role in a multi-million dollar fraud.
The FBI this week disclosed that Hushpuppi and Kyari had been friends and were both involved in a conspiracy to launder money.
Kyari has been embroiled in a running battle following the revelations from the US court document that Hushpuppi indicted him in a fraud allegation.
Kyari had, however, denied the allegations against him but he was suspended and a panel set up by the Inspector-general of Police, Usman Baba Alkali, to investigate him.
TWO MORE ACCOMPLICES ARRESTED
Meanwhile, the FBI on Tuesday arrested two other accomplices of the alleged international fraudster, Hushpuppi.
The two arrested accomplices were indicted alongside Huspuppi and others still at large, by the FBI, of defrauding a Qatari businessperson of $1.1 million.
It was learnt that Motunrayo Fashola and Bolatito Agbabiaka, the two additional suspects, had been arrested by the FBI but were admitted to bail, Tuesday evening.
Motunrayo has a child with Hushpuppi and has been living in New York, while Agbabiaka lives in New Jersey.
Both women were in charge of Wells Fargo and Capital One bank accounts used by the syndicate to defraud the Qatari businessperson, FBI’s revelations alleged.
Thus Hushpuppi, Vincent Chibuzor, Motunrayo and Agbabiaka and Kyari have thus far been named in the alleged fraud ring.
Sources, however, disclosed that the FBI was still profiling the mentioning of hot blogger, Miss Linda Ikeji, and flamboyant former Senate member, Dino Melaye, in some disclosures by embattled Hushpuppi.
HOW THE BUBBLE BURST
First News gathered that Hushpuppi disclosed to investigators that the rip-off scheme against their Quatari victim was going on well until Chibuzor contacted the victim and alerted him that Hushpuppi was a fraudster.
This annoyed Hushpuppi who then contacted Kyari to arrest and detain Chibuzor, who was in Nigeria at the time.
Hushpuppi briefed Kyari on the fraudulent scheme, explaining how Chibuzor wanted to frustrate it. Kyari subsequently arrested Chibuzor and held him in detention for five weeks.
Chibuzo was finally released after he developed a terrible illness with skin rashes and appeals from family members.