EFCC Press Release
The Economic and Financial
Crimes Commission, EFCC, has rounded up two officials of the VIP Express
Tourism Limited, a travel agency that is alleged to have swindled hundreds of
Nigerians to the tune of N70million. The two officials, Banabas Magi, Accountant, and Owoseli
Samuel, General Manager, were picked up on Monday, June 29, 2015 and are
currently being detained by the Commission.
Victims of the travel agency
had on June 5, 2015, petitioned the EFCC. alleging that they’ve been defrauded
by the company, which claimed to provide tourism services to Nigerians by
providing holiday vacation accommodation to them at resorts in some designated
countries.
They had claimed that the
agency deceived them through their marketers into parting with their money for
promised overseas trips that never materialized.
The two officials have been
offered provisional bail by the EFCC but are yet to meet the terms.
Wilson Uwujaren
Head,
Media & Publicity
30th
June, 2015
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