25-year-old Man Arrested For Extorting N7m From Lady After Threatening To Expose Her N00de Photos

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A  25-year-old man has been arrested for extorting N7 million from a lady after threatening to expose her nudes.

The man identified as Adetoro Kazeem allegedly blackmailed and extorted money from the lady acording to the police.

The state Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Abimbola Oyeyemi, disclosed this in a statement on Thursday.

Oyeyemi said the suspect, a resident of Paara Street, in the Alakia area of Ibadan, Oyo State, was arrested following a report by the complainant, Gloria OG0nnupebi.

He said the woman told the police at the Obalende divisional headquarters, Ijebu-Ode, that she received a message from a strange foreign number via a voice note on her WhatsApp, demanding N200,000 or he would upload her nude pictures on social media.

According to her, she sent the said amount to the suspect in order to prevent the caller from exposing her to public ridicule.

She further told the police that the suspect continued to make more financial demands, thereby extorting her to the tune of N7,363,900.

The complainant added that she decided to report when she got tired of the continuous extortion and started contemplating suicide.

Oyeyemi said following the report, the Obalende Divisional Police Officer, SP Salami Murphy, mobilised his crack detectives to go after the suspect.

The PPRO said, “The detectives embarked on intelligence and technical based investigation, and they successfully traced the suspect to his hideout in Ibadan, Oyo State, where he was apprehended.

“On interrogation, the suspect, who confessed to the crime, informed investigators that he had many OPAY accounts with different names through which he received money from his victims.”

Oyeyemi quoted the state Commissioner of Police, Edward AjoG0n, to have applauded the detectives for ‘a well done job.’

He added that the CP ordered an in-depth investigation into the past activities of the suspect with a view to charging him to court as soon as possible.