More 419 criminals arrested in Nigeria

Tema, Dec 2, GNA - With the assistance of INTERPOL more than 50 persons involved in the ''419'' scam have been apprehended in Lagos, Abuja and Port Harcourt, in Nigeria.

A Nigerian INTERPOL official, who spoke to the Ghana News Agency on Monday, said the Nigeria Police has completed case dockets on them and were being prosecuted at Federal High Courts.

Police Sergeant Sanusi Mohammed, who is attending the first Regional INTERPOL Criminal Intelligence Analysis Training Course for West Africa at Tema, said some of the ''419'' scam cases involved several millions of dollars, Naira and other foreign currencies.

He said those involved in the case of an Egyptian General was duped of large sums of foreign money when he was invited to Nigeria had been arrested and were being tried.

Sgt Mohammed said the ''419'' criminals invited the General to Nigeria, met him at various places and convinced him to part with huge sums of foreign cash. He said many of the criminals used cyber cafes to commit such crimes.

Nana Owusu Nsiah, Inspector-General of Police, opened the Course for 20 Police officials from the West African Sub-region, on Monday.