Operatives of the Lagos State Environmental and Special Offences Unit, have arrested a suspected fraudster, Adeshola Abiodun, for swindling an unsuspecting real estate developer of N5m meant for the payment of a development levy at the Lagos State Physical Planning Permit Authority.
The agency’s Director, Press and Public Affairs, Gbadeyan Abdulraheem, disclosed this in a statement on Sunday.
Abdulraheem stated that Abiodun had transferred the funds meant for other purposes and generated fake receipts to the victim before being investigated and consequently arrested by the Lagos State Taskforce.
He said, “The agency expanded its dragnet in the following weeks to apprehend a suspected fraudster who swindled an unsuspecting real estate developer of N5m meant for the payment of development levy at the Lagos State Physical Planning Permit Authority.
