About 30 suspects have been arrested by operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission during a raid on Parktonian Hotel in the Lekki area of Lagos State.
The EFCC team reportedly stormed the hotel on Tuesday, and proceeded to enter each of their targeted rooms after collecting the master cards from the management of the hotel.
The occupants of the rooms were reportedly taken unawares, and some of them were said to be in various states of undress when the EFCC officials entered their rooms.
One of the victims told the Peoples Gazette, “I was naked, and I had to beg them (for me) to put something on. I am actually hypertensive, but I put myself together because I am not a criminal in any way.”
No fewer than 13 guests were reportedly whisked away by the EFCC operatives during the raid.
The spokesperson for the EFCC, Wilson Uwujaren, said the operatives acted on verified intelligence targeted at suspects at Parktonian Hotel, adding that 30 suspects were arrested during the raid.
Uwujaren said the targets were cybercrime suspects lodged at Parktonian Hotel.
“During the exercise, 30 suspects were arrested. Of this number, 24 have been established to be involved in internet-related fraud. The operation was executed without incident as the facility had been under surveillance for weeks during which the commission was able to isolate the rooms where the suspects were lodged.
“Access to the rooms was seamless as the commission has standard procedure for accessing such facilities without application of force or discomfort to guests. No guest of the hotel was molested.
“But the commission observes a disturbing trend in which cybercrime suspects now employ kept ladies who feign nakedness as a decoy to distract operatives of the commission to enable them to destroy incriminating evidence before arrest.”
