A bid to kidnap Nigeria's billionaire oil tycoon
Femi Otedola for a ransom of about $3m (£2.4m) has been foiled, police
say. A gang of three was arrested for
the attempt to abduct Mr Otedola, whose fortune has been listed by Forbes
magazine at $1.8bn. The "mastermind" of the gang was a former
university student who was an "IT guru", while the second suspect was
an officer of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence corps who took "undue
advantage of his office to obtain the GSM number and location of their would be
victim", police added in a statement.
The third arrested man was the gang's "marksman
and armourer" and claimed he had been dismissed from the army in 2015,
police said, adding:
All the suspects made confessional statements
revealing that they had successfully carried out several high profile
kidnappings and two AK47 rifles loaded with live ammunition were recovered from
them."
The statement added that investigations were
continuing to arrest more members of the gang, and to also probe their other
alleged criminal activities. The arrests were made in June, police added. It is
unclear why details of the attempted abduction have only been revealed now.
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