Philippine’s security operatives have arrested a Nigerian man for swindling and threatening to leak a woman’s nude photos.
The
Nigerian man who was 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) in the country 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.
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.
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