Rapid Response Squad,RRS, a unit of Lagos State Police Command, has discovered fake embassy operating in Lagos where many innocent members of the public had been swindled.

The Policemen attached to the squad swooped on them and two Chinese and two Nigerians were apprehended during the raid on their office situated inside a hotel, Golden Point and Suite on Duduyemi Street in ISOLO.

The Chinese: Liu Honyang, Sun Xinai, and their Nigerian collaborators; Oriyomi Olawale, and Desmond Chinedu, conspired and swindled Nigerians who had planned to travel out of the country to seek greener pastures.

Commissioner of Police, Fatai Owoseni had given expressive approval to the operatives RRS to act on the intelligence reports received from members of the public after Millions of Naira has been collected using Nigeria citizens as cover.

RRS Decoy’s Policemen had lodged in the hotel for 9 days watching and monitoring their activities before eventual arrest.

On hearing the arrest News, some of their victims, showed up at the RRS’s Headquarters, recounting how they were duped respectively, hence their deportation from Trinidad and Tobago.

According to one of the victims, Adekunle Adefuye, “I met these people (suspects) through one of their agents, Dorcas Slyver. She is a daughter to my brother’s pastor in Abeokuta. I told her my intentions and zeal to travel to United States of America.

On his part, Rasheed Ololade, said that it was same agent, Dorcas Sylver, who persuaded him to go to T&T too, adding that all the money he paid amounted to N1.3M into her account.

Another victim, Friday Owah, who was at their office when they were arrested, said that he just paid N600,000 after being convinced to jettison his Europe trip for Trinidad & Tobago.

Another victim, Lukmon Odeyemi, a footballer by profession, also parted away with N125, 000 for Trinidad and Tobago’s en route visa.

In his reaction, Liu Hongyag, one of the arrested suspects, said he only helped her boss to do paper works and documents.

RRS posited that investigation has further revealed that the Trinidad and Tobago ‘S Embassy has confirmed the Visa fake and the Two Chinese agents unknown.

But Sun Xinai, the major suspect, noted that she was unaware that stamped visa for Trinidad and Tobago was no longer tenable in that country anymore.

Responding to RRS’s visa enquiry, the High Commission of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago in its letter dated 7th December 2016, referenced ABJ: 6/2/3/14, read in part:

Furthermore, this Mission does not use the services of an ‘agent’ in any capacity whatsoever and has never done so in the past either.

With regard to the authenticity of the attached visas, the Mission can also categorically confirm that those visas were not issued at this High Commission and are clearly fraudulent.

Noteworthy too is the fact that in June 2015, this Mission stopped the practice of issuing stamped visas in passports in favour of individual electronic visas issued from our country’s capital Port of Spain.

The letter was signed by Garth Lamsee, Acting High Commissioner

Items recovered from them during the raid were 25 international passports, 10 laptops, screw driver, 5 phones and paper documents.

While confirming the arrest, the Police Public Relations Officer of Lagos State, Superintendent of Police, Dolapo Badmus, said Police will not rest on its oars in protecting rights of any individual in the country.

She said the Police are on man-hunt for all their agents and canvassers, advising the public to be wary of visa agents and anyone who wishes to travel out of the country should direct their applications to the Embassies.

All the suspects have since been transferred to the State Criminal Investigation Department for further investigation.