Three arrested over oil and gas employment scam

 

Three persons have been arrested by operatives from the Zone 5 Headquarters of the Nigeria Police in Benin City have arrested three persons for defrauding members of the public millions of Naira under the guise of offering them employment in the oil and gas industry.
The suspects are Ehikhamenor Lewis aged 32, Stephen Eefgom aged 32 and Abdul Qadri Ibrahim aged 33.
They were alleged to have placed an employmen

t advertisement sometime in August 2014 on the social media and 1,122 applicants from Edo, Delta, Lagos and Kano states respectively.
Police Public Relations Officer, Zone 5 Headquarters, Emeka Iheanacho, who stated this in a press statement said the arrest was effected based on a credible information received by the police on their activities.
Emeka said the suspects confessed during interrogation that they operated with Jocom Lean Concept Limited to defraud their victims.
He said investigations revealed that victims paid between ten thousand naira (#10,000) to one hundred and fifty thousand Naira (#150,000) into Mr. Joseph James account, at Guaranty Trust Bank, owner of JOCOM LEAN CONCEPT situate at Comfort plaza, Block 2, Suite 29 New Etete road GRA Benin for application forms among others.
Items recovered from the suspects included HP Laptops Model, detailed list of about 1,122 victims, JOCOM LEAN CONCEPT letter head, twenty-one (21) deposit slips of Guaranty Trust Bank (GTB), Letter of introduction to applicants and JOCOM LEAN CONCEPT Training manual and Handouts.
The Zone 5 PRO said Joseph James identified as leader of the gang would soon be arrested.
He appealed to the public to be wary of people who claimed that they can offered them jobs and advised to always cross-checked from such companies to avoid falling victims to job racketeers.