The Financial and Monetary Crimes Fee has mentioned it arrested 14 undergraduates of the Federal College of Expertise, Akure, Ondo State.
The company mentioned the arrest was made by EFCC operatives of the Benin Zonal Command.
This was contained in a press release posted on the EFCC’s official X deal with.
The company additionally confirmed that the undergraduates have been arrested alongside 19 others within the early hours of Wednesday, February 14, 2024, for suspected web crimes.
Some college students had taken to social media to share movies of the midnight raid.
The movies present damaged window frames from what’s believed to be an try at pressured entry.
The Scholar Union Authorities of FUTA confirmed in a press release that the raid occurred at 3am on Wednesday.
The union claimed {that a} feminine scholar was molested and a few college students sustained bodily accidents.
Nonetheless, the EFCC mentioned the raid was a response to calls to the company by mother and father and neighbours across the location.
The assertion learn, “The suspects have been arrested at totally different residential areas throughout the Akure metropolis following intelligence on their alleged nefarious actions.
“Particularly, the sting operation that yielded their arrest was a response to strident calls to the EFCC by neighbours and fogeys across the areas, to save lots of their youngsters from being lured into internet-related actions by the suspects.
“Gadgets recovered on the level of arrest embody 10 unique automobiles, telephones, laptops and one bike.
“The suspects can be charged to courtroom as quickly as investigations are concluded.”
The assertion didn’t, nevertheless, deal with the ban on midnight operations by EFCC chairman Ola Olukoyede.
Olukoyede, in November 2023, ordered that sting operations at evening be stopped.
Round 70 college students of Obafemi Awolowo College, Ile-Ife, Osun State, have been arrested earlier in November 2023, in a midnight raid on off-campus hostels.