An American lady, Nicole Kierulff Sayers, says she is suicidal and facing bankruptcy after being swindled of her $200,000 savings by a Nigerian fraudster, Chidozie Kingsley Nwachi aka Dozie.
Sayers said this in a statement released by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Wednesday, February 15.
The EFCC said that its operatives arrested Nwachi on Wednesday for allegedly marrying the American lady falsely and defrauding her $200,000 in the process.
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According to an EFCC statement, Nwachi was arrested in Abuja based on the claims of Sayers, alleging that the suspect lured her into a false marriage and defrauded her of her savings.
“I was accustomed to transferring money to him and further felt I had no choice, since I had just married him, even though I did not feel confident in my choice to have married him,” Sayers said.
The EFCC said that Nwachi’s ploy of defrauding his “wife” was the offer of a phony contract by the Federal Ministry of Works and Housing, Abuja.
He allegedly made Sayers finance the execution of the contract until the petitioner contacted the ministry with the contract papers and discovered that they were fake.
Realising that Nwachi had sold her a dummy, Sayers lamented that: “I have been suicidal on and off, when I realised he was a fraud, as I was drowning financially and facing bankruptcy”.
The EFCC said that items recovered from the suspect include two cars: Toyota Venza and Lexus ES300, expensive wrist watches, two Apple iPhone, two Apple laptops, an international passport and multiple Automated Teller Machine (ATM) cards.
The commission further said that a sum of $2,204 was also recovered from him.
“He will be charged to court as soon as investigations are concluded,” the EFCC said.
