The Nigerian man arrested in Philippines
A Nigerian man accused of swindling
thousands of pesos from a Filipina woman
he met on a mobile dating app has been
arrested in Las Piñas City, Philippines.
Agents of the National Bureau of
Investigation (NBI) arrested the suspect,
Innocent Uchenna Nkwoka, with aliases
Steve Edward and Agulu Prince, and his
supposed female accomplice, Irene Lee
Okoro, with alias Jackie Pascual, last
January 17, the bureau announced today,
Tuesday, January 22.
Photos: Nigerian man arrested in
Philippines for swindling Filipina woman
and threatening to leak her nude photos
Another accomplice, a certain Ana Fe
Sandoval, remains at large.
The NBI said it acted on a complaint of a
woman who alleged she was blackmailed
by one Agulu Prince, whom she met on
Tinder in February 2018 and with whom she
was supposedly engaged to by August.
The complainant, who was not named in
the NBI's statement, alleged that with
encouragement from Agulu Prince, she
sent more than P50,000 to Sandoval, who
claimed she was from the US Embassy, for
the processing of her fiancée visa and
other fees.
The NBI narrated that the complainant and
her family went to the Ninoy Aquino
International Airport last December to fetch
Agulu Prince but that she was told by a
self-described Customs employee that he
had been held at the Cebu airport for
carrying $800,000 into the country.
The complainant "sensed she was being
duped" when she was asked to send
P25,000 through a money remittance
service for her fiance's release.
When she refused, Agulu Prince allegedly
sent her a message demanding the amount
and threatened he will leak her nude
photos if she did not comply.
This prompted the complainant to send
P10,000 to Sandoval, the NBI said. Agulu
Prince allegedly demanded money from the
complainant and dangled the same threat
over her at other times, which made her
turn to the NBI.
NBI surveillance operations led them to
Pascual, who allegedly claimed the money
sent by the complainant. Pascual told the
investigators that she will meet Agulu
Prince in Las Piñas, where operatives
arrested him and recovered the mobile
phone where the complainant's nude
photos were stored.
The arrested duo face charges for
swindling and robbery extortion in relation
to the Cybercrime Prevention Act of 2012
and for violation of the Anti-Photo and
Video Voyeurism Act of 2009.
Source:
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man-arrested-in-philippines-for-
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