ICPC nabs woman selling new Naira notes

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Woman selling naira notes on social media arrested
Omoseyin Oluwadarasimi Esther, an entrepreneur selling new Naira notes on the social media

Admin l Thursday, February 2, 2023

 

LAGOS, Nigeria – The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC)  has arrested a woman, Omoseyin Oluwadarasimi Esther, with the Twitter handle of Lala, offering new naira notes for sale on social media.

Esther, according to the ICPC was arrested on Wednesday as a result of intelligence received which led the ICPC operatives to seek out and promptly arrest the suspect.

Omoseyin Oluwadarasimi Esther, a social media “serial entrepreneur” who deals in skincare, sales of fuel, facilitation of foreign travels through visa acquisitions, and other businesses, seized the opportunity of the scarcity of the new naira notes to openly sell the new notes.

The ICPC believes she is doing it in collusion with key elements in the financial services sector diverting the newly released notes away from banking halls and payment channels into a “ black market”

She is currently in ICPC detention and is helping the Commission with its findings on the criminal trading of the naira and the attendant scarcity and negative economic outcomes being caused by the action.

The ICPC  said the action is in furtherance of the collaboration between CBN ICPC and EFCC in implementing the new cashless policy and naira redesign.

 

 

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