A four-man suspected syndicate comprising two males and two females who specialised in sex blackmail and extortion of money from their victims have been apprehended by the police in Anambra State.
The spokesperson for the Anambra Police Command, DSP Toochukwu Ikenga, in a statement in Awka on Thursday, said the gang specialised in taking nude pictures of victims and threaten to post them online unless they paid money.
The police inage-maker gave the names of the suspects as; Okechukwu Ogoejiofor, 36, Nonso Nwizu, 34, Esther Nwafor lfeanyichukwu, 21 and Obianuju Nduba, 20.
According to him, the suspects were arrested at Ajakpani village, Umunya in Oyi Local Government Area for alleged conspiracy, demanding with menaces and stealing.
He said the suspects used social media to lure their unsuspecting male victims into fake love/friendship and thereafter take them to a room where they engaged them in foreplay.
Obianuju Nduba he explained engaged the victim in a foreplay while other members of the gang forced themselves into the room.
“They took nude pictures and videos of the victims, which they use to force the victims into transferring huge sums of money to them.
“They usually threaten to publish the nude pictures and videos on social media if the victims fail to comply and also dispossess the individual of his personal belongings,” Ikenga stated.
He added that the case would be charged to court once investigations were concluded.
