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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), successful collaboration with the Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS) and the Nigerian Correctional Service (NCoS), has deported the remaining 51 overseas nationals convicted and sentenced for cyber-terrorism, net fraud, and related fiscal crimes successful Lagos, bringing the full repatriations to 192 foreigners progressive successful the crimes to a palmy close.
The deportation workout followed the apprehension and palmy prosecution of 759 suspects during a large sting cognition conducted by the EFCC connected December 10, 2024, astatine Oyin Jolayemi Street, Victoria Island, Lagos.
EFCC spokesperson, Dele Oyewale, said successful a connection that the deportation exercise, which began connected Friday, August 15, 2025, followed the condemnation of the offenders by the Federal High Court successful Lagos for offences bordering connected cybercrime, wealth laundering, and ponzi strategy operations.
He explained that, “The archetypal batch of 42 convicts comprising Chinese and Filipino nationals was deported connected August 15, 2025. Subsequent batches followed passim August and September. The last batch of 51 convicts, including 50 Chinese nationals and 1 Tunisian, departed Nigeria connected October 16, 2025, bringing the full fig of repatriated foreigners to 192.
“The deported convicts see nationals of China, the Philippines, Tunisia, Malaysia, Pakistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Timor-Leste. They were deported successful coordinated batches betwixt August and mid-October 2025, successful accordance with tribunal directives and migration procedures.
“All the deported convicts bagged their imprisonment erstwhile they were arrested with their Nigerian accomplices believed to beryllium members of a blase cybercrime and ponzi strategy syndicate operating nether the screen of Genting International Co. Limited.
“The cognition , based connected credible, actionable intelligence, and consequent investigations, confirmed that the convicted foreigners were progressive successful large-scale online fraud, individuality theft, and cyber-enabled Ponzi schemes. Evidence revealed that they trained recruits and managed fraudulent integer platforms aimed astatine defrauding victims some locally and internationally. The Nigeria Immigration Service deported them arsenic directed by the court.”
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