Police arrest suspect over fake shutdown report targeting OPay
The Nigeria Police Force National Cybercrime Centre (NPF-NCCC) has arrested a suspect, Hafsat Abubakar, for allegedly creating and circulating a forged document falsely claiming that a fintech company was shutting down its operations.
ALSO READ: SSS, Police investigating those behind viral shutdown claim – OPay OPay had earlier identified two accounts on X, saying it wrote to them and demanded that they take down the publication.
Suspect arrested Ani Iniedu, the police spokesperson, disclosed at a press conference in Abuja on Wednesday that Ms Abubakar was arrested after a forensic investigation that traced the originality of the claim to an X account operated by her, according to Channels TV.
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