In tears, he called and lamented how his life is finished as all his life savings have been stolen from his bank, not by cyber criminals, but the Nigerian International Police called INTERPOL, internationally known as the Organisation Internationale de Police Criminelle.
The Nigeria Police Force (NPF) is in charge of Interpol operations in Nigeria. Specifically, the Interpol Liaison office in Nigeria which is under the Force Criminal Investigation Department (FCID), which is headed by a Deputy Inspector-General
(DIG) .
Mr. Utubor-Irabor Carry, nightmare started like a Nollywood story. He has this assumed good friend he has chatting with, telling him how he has worked so hard to gradually save funds and his plans to return to Nigeria and start doing something. A few days later, he started receiving calls from someone who claimed that he’s an officer with INTERPOL harassing him and questioning how he came about such a huge amount of money. Don’t go too far, the said huge amount of money was N84m that was saved over a period of time.
He still went back and narrated to his so-called friend how someone started calling him, claiming to be calling from Interpol, threatening him over the savings in his Zenith Bank account. He didn’t take it too serious as he thought he was a fraudster. He innocently told his friend that if they were serious they could have written him an invitation. It was a few days later when the invitation letter landed ( See attached) that his mind started zeroing in to the fact that his so-called friend might be behind the blackmail.
The invitation was dated on 26th February, and he was to appear from UNITED KINGDOM on 20th March for questioning over how he was able to gradually save N84M in his account. While he was still worried and thinking how best to handle the situation. On 29th January 2025 INTERPOL went to his corporate account at Zenith Bank by named Drejet Nigeria Limited to withdraw N82m. The money was transferred to the CD ALAGBON CLOSE you can see at the tail end of the Zenith Bank account details print out the line l placed a green spot.
The point is, even if INTERPOL are investigating him for any crime they should block his account through legal means, they don’t have authority to withdraw his money.
The Nigeria Police Force should please step out and explain to Nigerians under which authority did interpol withdraw N82m from someone who is still innocent?
Zenith Bank Plc should step out and explain to Nigerians and their numerous customers what type of documents or authority that was served to them that empowered them to betray their customer’s trust and transfer money in his account, without his consent, into another account. Failure to do any of these means they have to payback his money into account with damages.
The question is, how many Nigerians has the Nigerian Police Force or INTERPOL HQ Nigeria has been going around stealing their money in their accounts, without their knowledge?
Does it mean that Nigerian citizens money in various bank accounts across the nation is no longer safe?
There are families who lost their loved ones who has been crying about how the funds they left in the banks got stolen.
Is not everyone that receives alerts over transactions and who knows if their funds in the banks are safe?
It simply means that there are agents out there spying on individuals and giving the information to our security officers, who then bring up none existing accusations and use it as excuse to steal their funds from their banks.
Look at the date the invitation was issued, 26th February and the money was transferred on 29th January, while the invitation date was 29th January. It simply means that his money has been transferred and the invitation was just an after thought to give cover to their criminal activity.
It simply means that your money in Nigerian banks are not safe.
The Director of the Nigeria Police Force National Cybercrime Centre (NPF-NCCC), Nigeria’s Commissioner of Police (CP), Ifeanyi Uche, and Chairman of the International Criminal Police Organization (INTERPOL’s) African Heads of Cybercrime Units. Whose picture l included here should please take an urgent step to ratify this. The image of your office and Interpol is at stake as the international community are watching.
CP Uche, let me remind you, when you emerged on Friday, May 3, 2024 after the 10th Africa Working Group meeting on cybercrime for heads of units held at the Transcorp Hilton Hotel from April 29th to May 3.
While delivering your speech, you said: “Cybercrime poses a significant threat to our societies, economies, and security, and it is imperative that we work together to address this growing challenge. As chairman, I am committed to leading from the front, fostering the much-desired collaboration among our member units to enhance our collective ability to prevent and investigate cybercrimes effectively in Africa.
