POLICE SPECIAL FRAUD UNIT (PSFU) PSFU-LAGOS ARRAIGNS USA VISA RACKETEER FOR FORGING UNITED NATIONS INVITATION LETTERS & OTHER DOCUMENTS
POLICE SPECIAL FRAUD UNIT (PSFU) PSFU-LAGOS ARRAIGNS USA VISA RACKETEER FOR FORGING UNITED NATIONS INVITATION LETTERS & OTHER DOCUMENTS





POLICE PRESS RELEASE
23RD MARCH, 2023
POLICE
SPECIAL FRAUD UNIT (PSFU)
PSFU-LAGOS
ARRAIGNS USA VISA RACKETEER FOR FORGING UNITED NATIONS INVITATION LETTERS &
OTHER DOCUMENTS
CP-PSFU ADVISE VISA APPLICANTS AGAINST PATRONISING DOCUMENT VENDORS.
Operatives of
Police Special Fraud Unit (PSFU) attached to the Diplomatic Section have
arrested and arraigned one Abioye Abolaji, male; on an Eleven-Count
Charge bordering on alleged Forgery, Obtaining Money by False Pretence, False
Representation and Stealing.
The arrest of
the suspect was in furtherance to a petition from the Diplomatic Security
Services (DSS) Regional Security office at the United States Consulate General
(USCG), Lagos; which requested discrete investigation into forged documents submitted
by certain C-2 Visa applicants to the Non-Immigrant Visa (NIV) Unit of USCG.
C-2 Visa is a NIV category reserved for participants at United Nations (UN)
Conference/Events.
Investigation
by USCG and PSFU into 77 C-2 applications from 24 organisations in Nigeria to
attend 2 separate Conferences, namely, 67th Session of the UN
Commission on the Status of Women and UN 2023 Water Conference scheduled to
take place in New York between 22nd-24th March, 2023; revealed that most of the
applicants are not qualified for the Visa classification they applied for
because the applicants provided forged UN Invitation Letters.
The
applicants, who claimed to be employees of Osun & Sons Agricultural
Venture, Ray D. Exclusive Electrical Contractor, or ACE Technoresources
Integrated Services; planned to attend UN Water Conference as a representative
or nominee of these organisations but investigation revealed that none of the
organisation is in consultative status with the UN and that the employment of
most of the applicants had no bearing to either of the referenced UN
Conferences.
Further information elicited during Polic