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Police arrests fake police inspector, EFCC Official

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The Nigeria Police has arrested one Olakunle Adesola, a fraudster who impersonates senior police officers.

Confiance News gathered from TheNewsmetrics on Thursday.

Adesola is a serial fraudster who specialises in impersonating legal practitioners and Senior Law enforcement Officers to defraud unsuspecting members of the public.

According to a statement by Josephine Adeh, Police PRO, FCT, folowing a series of petitions and reports at various formations/ units of the Police Command,

Confiance News gathered that the impostor, Adesola, a 61 years old resident of liberty Estate by spring road AMAC Abuja, was finally arrested on Sunday 20th November 2022 by The command’s intelligence asset attached to the Anti-violence Crime section of the State Criminal investigations department (SCID) at our lady Queen of cathedral church Area III where scores of unsuspecting worshippers have reportedly been defrauded.

The suspect’s modus operandi is to impersonate a senior Police Officer between the ranks of Commissioner and Assistant Inspector General of Police, top-ranking EFCC officials, and/or a legal practitioner who owns a law firm by the name Dr. Kunle Adeshola & Associate has successfully defrauded many to the tone of about Ten Million naira (10,000,000).

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