The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has rounded up two
officials of the VIP Express Tourism Limited, a travel agency that is
alleged to have swindled hundreds of Nigerians to the tune of
N70million. The two officials, Banabas Magi, Accountant, and Owoseli
Samuel, General Manager, were picked up on Monday, June 29, 2015 and are
currently being detained by the Commission.
Victims of the travel agency had on June 5, 2015, petitioned the EFCC.
alleging that they’ve been defrauded by the company, which claimed to
provide tourism services to Nigerians by providing holiday vacation
accommodation to them at resorts in some designated countries.
They had claimed that the agency deceived them through their marketers
into parting with their money for promised overseas trips that never
materialized.The two officials have been offered provisional bail by the
EFCC but are yet to meet the terms.
Media & Publicity
30th June, 2015
