PHOTO: Fake Custom Officers Arrested For Duping Car Buyers

A fake Deputy Superintendent of Customs, Ramoni Raji, who along with two others who allegedly duped their victims of not less than N5m in auction sales has been arrested by police.

Raji, with the other suspects ─ Usman Ibrahim and Adekunle Thomas ─ was apprehended in the Gowon Estate area of Lagos by operatives of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad. It was gathered that while Raji was pretending to be a DSC, Thomas pretended to be an official driver to Raji, while Ibrahim was in charge of giving out bank account for victims to pay into.

It was gathered that Raji told victims that he was in charge of auctioning vehicles and some goods in containers. The police explained that the three (3) allegedly criminars are use to taking their victims to the Wharf, Apapa area to show them the vehicles and other goods.

A victim, identified simply as Mrs. Uche, was duped of N1.8m when she choose to buy an auctioned Toyota Highlander and paid the amount (as mentioned earlier) into an account given to her by the suspects.

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