The Nigerian police on Monday said that the arrest of two Nigerians involved in an alleged attempt to defraud a German company, will help to improve its relations with Europe’s richest country.
“This will actually help in strengthening our relationship with Germany,” police spokesman, Frank Mba, said.
“Rather than having a negative impact, it will have a very positive impact. The German people, the German government and the German business community must have been encouraged by the timeliness of our action, the fact that detectives from Nigeria and Interpol’s National Central Bureau (NCB) based here in Abuja, have got the capacity to actually wade into this kind of case and uncover the crime and try to bring the criminals to book. It shows that even if Germans are making investments in Nigeria, they can be assured that their investments are protected and we’ve got the capacity to tackle any unforeseen circumstances that may arise”, he added.
Mba however emphasised that “there are criminals all over the world. Remember that even in this case, there are also accomplices who are not Nigerians, who are Dutch citizens, working with their Nigerian counterparts.”
The police had on Sunday announced the arrest of Babatunde Adesanya and Akinpelu Hassan Abass who are alleged to be members of a sophisticated transnational criminal network.
The men were allegedly part of a COVID-19 procurement operation that tried to defraud the German State of North Rhine-Westphalia of about €14.7 million.
Source: Today.ng
