€14.7m COVID-19 fraud: Interpol, Nigeria Police nab suspects, €498,000 in Nigerian bank - Daily Post Nigeria

Force spokesman, Frank Mba, in a statement said Babatunde Adesanya aka Teddy, 50, a Master Degree holder in Cell Biology, and Akinpelu Hassan Abass, 41, the Managing Director of Musterpoint Investment Nig. Ltd, are members of a transnational criminal network.

Their arrest was sequel to a Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty received by the Bureau from the office of the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice conveying a request from the German Government for investigations. Mba said the suspects fraudulently obtained from Mr Hahn the sum of 1.5m Euro and another 880,000 Euro as advanced payment for the supply of COVID-19 PPEs valued at 14.7million Euros.

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