Operatives of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, SARS, at the Zone 2, headquarters, Onikan, Lagos yesterday apprehended one Akeem Alo, a con star, who specializes in the production and sales of fake currency.
Olugbenimi Adeoyo, the spokesperson of Zone 2 command headquarters, who confirmed the arrest of Alo, said the fake currencies found with the suspect were in the denomination of $100, £100 notes, while N20, 000 was also found on him.
The suspect, 42, and a native of Oyo State, was picked in Ikorodu by the operatives when they raided his hideout and recovered counterfeit currencies both local and foreign.
The Zone 2 command spokesperson further stated that the suspect was a hardened criminal who has been apprehended over the same offence severally.
“He has been arrested twice and he has kept on coming back. We are going to charge him to court and remand him,”Adeoye said.
On his apprehension by the operatives, Alo said: “I am a butcher. I was arrested last Wednesday. Someone called and said he needed dollars and Pounds. He wanted to use it as ‘treasure,’ which means for fraud.
“I brought the Dollars to the place and I was arrested by the police. Before now, I was arrested in 2013 and they recovered $100,000 and £100,000 from me. I usually sell $10,000 for N2,000, while I sell £10,000 for N3000.
Relatively men of the Police force, on Thursday, around Alaba International Market thwarted an attempt by a mob to lynch a middle-aged man, who they claimed used a fake one thousand naira to purchase wares from a girl.
The fraudulent act was only discovered when the girl asked her neighbour to help change the money.
On noticing that the 1000 naira was fake, the neighbour raised the alarm, leading to those around descending on him.
An eyewitness, Ijeoma Obodo, said, “we were here when he purchased something from that little girl with a fake N1, 000 note.
“He would have succeeded in using the fake currency and also collecting his change from her.”
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