EFCC arrest Iwuchukwu Uche for defrauding Vietnamese woman with marriage promise

ECONOMIC and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) officials have arrested one Iwuchukwu Martin Uche for obtaining the sum of $145,000 under false pretences from a Vietnamese woman claiming he loved her.

 

Mr Uche, who claimed to be a military officer working for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (Nato) in Kabul, Afghanistan allegedly, collected the money from his victim, H Uyen, after promising to marry her. He then got her to wire the money to his Diamond Bank account with number 0028998256.

 

EFCC spokesperson, Wilson Uwujaren, said the suspect, who also claimed to be a property agent operating in Nigeria and Ghana, allegedly told the victim that he needed the money to procure some documents for the planned wedding. He added that Mr Uche will soon be charged to court, after investigations are concluded.

 

This is the second such high profile case of marital fraud that the EFCC has prosecuted of late in a sign that the agency is taking the menace seriously. Last month, the EFCC arrested one Chike Nnaemeka for allegedly tricking a Federal Road Safety Corps official into marrying him under false pretences and not telling her he was already married.