{"id":57121,"date":"2024-11-03T18:04:45","date_gmt":"2024-11-03T18:04:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/police-arrest-130-chinese-nigerians-for-alleged-cybercrime-in-fct\/"},"modified":"2024-11-03T18:04:45","modified_gmt":"2024-11-03T18:04:45","slug":"police-arrest-130-chinese-nigerians-for-alleged-cybercrime-in-fct","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/police-arrest-130-chinese-nigerians-for-alleged-cybercrime-in-fct\/","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING: Police arrest 130 Chinese, Nigerians for alleged cybercrime in FCT"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>About 130 foreigners have been arrested by the Nigeria Police Force, NPF, for alleged high-level cybercrimes, hacking, and activities relating to national security.<\/p>\n<p>The foreign nationals primarily of Chinese and Malaysian origin comprising 87 males and 26 females were arrested in the Jahi area of Abuja.<\/p>\n<p>A statement by the Force spokesman, Olumuyiwa Adejobi on Sunday, said 17 others were identified as Nigerians.<\/p>\n<p>The statement reads partly: \u201cThis strategic operation was conducted through a coordinated raid on a building at the Next Cash and Carry area of Jahi, Abuja, where the suspects were reportedly using computers and other sophisticated devices to facilitate criminal activities.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe operation which was led by the Assistant Inspector-General of Police for Zone 7 Headquarters, Abuja, AIG Benneth Igweh, on Saturday, 3rd November 2024, comprised officers of the Nigeria Police Force Zone 7 Command Abuja and the National Cyber Crime Centre, NPF-NCCC.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are investigating the matter and scientifically analysing the exhibits recovered from them. The suspects will be charged in court upon the conclusion of our investigations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will update the public on the outcomes of our investigations as and when due.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>BREAKING: Police arrest 130 Chinese, Nigerians for alleged cybercrime in FCT<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About 130 foreigners have been arrested by the Nigeria Police Force, NPF, for alleged high-level cybercrimes, hacking, and activities relating&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":57122,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4168,4061,15,310,761],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking","category-fct","category-news","category-police","category-top-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57121\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}