Four persons, including two girls, have been arrested by the police in Anambra State for allegedly operating a syndicate that lures victims into love affairs and thereafter bl@ckmail them with s#xtapes recorded during the ‘affair’.
The suspects, identified as Okechukwu Ogoejiofor, 36, Nonso Nwizu, 34, Esther Nwafor lfeanyichukwu, 21 and 20-year-old Obianuju Nduba, were arrested on Thursday, August 18.
The command’s spokesperson, DSP Ikenga Tochukwu, in a statement said 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 n#depictures/videos of the victims, which they use to force the victims into transferring huge sums of money to them, with the thre@t of publishing same on social media if the the victims fail to comply and also dispossess the individual of his personal belongings,” he said
