{"id":9539,"date":"2025-12-18T04:10:48","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T04:10:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/?p=9539"},"modified":"2025-12-18T04:10:48","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T04:10:48","slug":"efcc-arrests-herbalists-with-3-4million-e280-000-counterfeit-notes-in-osun-lagos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/2025\/12\/18\/efcc-arrests-herbalists-with-3-4million-e280-000-counterfeit-notes-in-osun-lagos\/","title":{"rendered":"EFCC arrests herbalists with $3.4million, \u20ac280, 000 counterfeit notes in Osun, Lagos"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Our Correspondent <\/p>\n

Revelation, as Operatives of the Ibadan Zonal Directorate of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, have uncovered huge counterfeit foreign notes to the tune of $3, 430, 000 (Three Million, Four Hundred and Thirty Thousand United States Dollars) and \u20ac280, 000 (Two Hundred and Eighty Thousand Euros) in possession of a five-member syndicate arrested for allegedly swindling one Halima Sanni the sum of N26, 550, 000 (Twenty-Six Million, Five Hundred and Fifty Thousand Naira).
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The herbalists: Akingbola Omotayo, Adeola Funsho Ogunrinde, Yahaya Amodu, Kubratu Babalola Olaitan (female) and Familola Sunday Olaitan. were arrested on December 7 and 8, 2025 at their shrines in Osun and Lagos States respectively, following a thorough surveillance and intelligence on their fraudulent activities<\/p>\n

Investigation revealed that the suspects were allegedly EFCC arrests herbalists with $3.4million, \u20ac280, 000 counterfeit notes in Osun, Lagos
\n earnings under the pretence of providing spiritual cleansing and solutions to different ailments.<\/p>\n

They also allegedly assured their victims of their powers to conjure several currency notes which must be cleaned up by a genie through spiritual sacrifice before spending the money. They did all these by hypnotizing their victims to provide money for the sacrifice.<\/p>\n

Other items recovered from them include two exotic cars and mobile phones.<\/p>\n

The suspects will be charged to court as soon as investigations are concluded<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Our Correspondent Revelation, as Operatives of the Ibadan Zonal Directorate of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, have uncovered huge counterfeit foreign notes to the tune of $3, 430, 000 (Three Million, Four Hundred and Thirty Thousand United States Dollars) and \u20ac280, 000 (Two Hundred and Eighty Thousand Euros) in possession of a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9540,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[1137,2635,1093,2568],"class_list":["post-9539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-law-crime","tag-activities","tag-fraudulent","tag-intelligence","tag-surveillance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9539"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9542,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9539\/revisions\/9542"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}