The Airport Police Command in collaboration with other security agencies have arrested a suspected international fraudster, Abraham Akpojisheri, for possession of 783 MTN Sim cards.
The suspect was intercepted by eagle eye Aviation Security at the local wing of Murtala Muhammed International Airport, 2 Ikeja, Lagos State on June 24, 2025.
Akpojisheri, from Delta State, was billed to board a local flight to Asaba the same day from MM2 before his arrest.
Police Public Relations Officer of the command, CSP Daramola Kazeem, who disclosed this in a statement on Thursday, June 26 said the suspect confessed to being part of an international syndicate involved in identity theft and large-scale internet fraud.
The syndicate specialise in stealing people’s identities and pictures to create profiles online with the intent to defraud victims by impersonation.
The suspect allegedly used Facebook to contact his victims and had created multiple emails with different foreign names and numbers, convincing victims to invest in forex trade.
According to Kazeem, investigation revealed that the suspect bought the sim cards from South Africa for the purpose of hacking CARD EAS of people’s accounts across the globe.
Further investigation revealed that he has scammed ten (10) victims from America alone out of tens of thousands of dollars.
“It was a synergy among inter agencies at work in the Airport when one Abraham Akpojisheri ‘m’ aged 29 of Villa, Abraka Delta state was arrested by eagle eye Aviation Security at the local wing of Murtala Muhammed International Airport, 2 Ikeja Lagos on June 24, 2025, and was promptly handed over to the airport police,” the statement read.
“The suspect who came into Nigeria through MMIA with TAG Angola airline on 24/06/25 with Seven Hundred and Eighty-Three (783) MTN SIM cards allegedly brought in from South Africa where he travelled to sometimes in February 2025, was billed to board local flight to Asaba same day from MM2. Travel packages
“The Airport Commissioner of Police, CP Olufunke Adeayo Ogunbode mnips, PhD upon taking over the case directed a special unit savvy with technology wherewithal to unravel the motive behind the suspect action for having such number of SIM cards with him coming from abroad after the botched boarding of flight to Asaba by Aviation Security (AVSEC).
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