The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has declared eight persons wanted over the alleged fraud perpetrated on a trading platform, Crypto Bridge Exchange (CBEX).
The Commission put up a public notice on Friday regarding the 8 suspects.
Four of the suspects based in Nigeria are: Adefowora Olanipekun, Adefowora Oluwanisola, Emmanuel Uko and Seyi Oloyede.
Others named as their foreign accomplices are: Johnson Otieno, Israel Mbaluka, Joseph Kabera and Serah Michiro, who the EFCC also declared wanted.
CBEX recently drew widespread public scrutiny. Users of CBEX raised a series of complaints that they were unable to withdraw their funds, raising suspicions that the platform may have collapsed.
While some still maintain that CBEX is operational, others have called it a Ponzi scheme. The platform claims to offer users a 100% return on investment within a month and rewards referrals, with all transactions conducted in USD.
The anti-graft agency published the separate wanted notice across its social media platforms on Friday.
“The public is hereby notified that the persons whose photographs appear above are wanted by the Economic and Financial Crimes.” The terse separate statements said
According to the EFCC, Oloyede Uko and the foreign accomplices were last traced to No. 166, Idimu Egbeda Road, Lagos State.
But Oluwanisola and Olaonipekun were last known to reside at 13, Jimoh Odutola, Ogungpa, Ibadan, Oyo State.
The commission urged members of the public with any useful information regarding the whereabouts of the suspects to reach out to the EFCC through its offices in Ibadan, Enugu, Kano, Lagos, Gombe, Port Harcourt, or Abuja.
The Daily Crucible reports that a federal high court in Abuja had recently granted permission to the EFCC to arrest and detain six CBEX promoters over a $1 billion.
In the application filed by the EFCC, the six suspects named are Olanipekun, Oluwanisola, Uko, Oloyede, Avwerosuo Otorudo and Chukwuebuka Ehirim.
