Nigeria Deports 51 Foreigners Convicted Of Cyber Crimes

Posted by African Examiner Featured, Latest Headlines, News Across Nigeria Sunday, October 19th, 2025

(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has successful collaboration with different agencies deported different batch of 51 overseas nationals convicted of cyber-terrorism, net fraud, and related fiscal crimes successful Lagos.

 EFCC Spokesperson, Dele Oyewale, said this successful a connection connected Sunday successful Abuja.

 Oyewale said the workout was jointly carried retired by the anti-graft bureau with the Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS) and the Nigerian Correctional Service (NCoS).

 According to him, the last batch of 51 convicts, including 50 Chinese nationals and 1 Tunisian, brings to 192 the fig of  foreigners convicted of fiscal crimes successful Lagos authorities to a close.

 He said that the past batch of deportees near Nigeria connected Oct. 16.

 ”The deportation workout followed the apprehension and palmy prosecution of 759 suspects during a large sting cognition conducted by the EFCC connected Dec. 10, 2024, astatine Oyin Jolayemi Street, Victoria Island, Lagos.

 ”The deportation exercise, which began connected Aug. 15, followed the condemnation of the offenders by the Federal High Court successful Lagos for offences bordering connected cybercrime, wealth laundering, and ponzi strategy operations.

 ”The archetypal batch of 42 convicts, comprising Chinese and Filipino nationals, was deported connected Aug. 15; consequent batches followed passim August and September,” helium said.

 According to him, 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.

 ”The syndicate was said to beryllium operating nether the screen of Genting International Co. Limited.

 ”The operation, 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.”

 According to him, grounds 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...