Police rescue victims held hostage by cybercrime gang in Delta. Credit: X| Brightgoldenboy
The Delta State Police Command has arrested two suspects and rescued seven boys who were held against their will by an internet fraud group known as Hustlers Kingdom in the Warri area of the state.
In a video posted on X (formerly Twitter) on Saturday, the command’s spokesperson, SP Bright Edafe, said the command received a complaint from one of the boys on November 17, claiming that he was deceived into the apartment.
Police rescue victims held hostage by cybercrime gang in Delta. Credit: X| Brightgoldenboy
Edafe wrote, “We received a complaint from one of the boys who said he was deceived into the apartment, which he later discovered to be Hustlers Kingdom (HK), and whenever they don’t get a paying client, they use a cane (koboko) to flog them. You need to see the boy’s back.
“Operatives of QRS swiftly responded and stormed the apartment, rescued seven boys being held against their will, and arrested the two suspects who call themselves ‘chairmen”
The video showed bundles of cane, phones and laptops being used by the group for the business, with one of the “chairmen” confessing that they were into internet fraud commonly called “yahoo.”
Two of the victims, aged 28 and 23, also confessed to being starved and flogged by the “chairmen” with visible marks on their bodies.
Watch the video below:
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