Deputy Commissioner of Police, DCP Abba Kyari, who is currently deep in controversy, has deleted his Facebook post. The post contained his side of the story on his interaction with arrested international cybercriminal, Ramon Abbas, popularly known as Hushpuppi.
Kyari pulled down the post amid the controversy surrounding his relationship with Hushpuppi.
Hushpuppi allegedly bribed Kyari to jail an errant cyber-criminal.
Reports had claimed that Hushpuppi bribed Kyari to arrest and jail his errant gang member, Vincent Chibuzo, over a deal worth $1.1 million.
But, Kyari, who then headed the Police Intelligence Response Team, IRT, denied the allegation.
On his verified Facebook page (Abba Kyari), the former IRT boss had explained that Hushpuppi had called his office complaining of a threat to his life.
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However, when Vanguard perused through the same verified Facebook page, the statement was no longer there on Wednesday.
Meanwhile, the Inspector General of Police, IGP, Alkali Usman Baba, had suspended Kyari while ordering a review of the allegation.
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Abba was removed as head of IRT and replaced with Olatunji Disu.
Abba Kyari deleted a Facebook post explaining the relationship with Hushpuppi.
Hushpuppi mentioned Mr. Kyari received part of the proceeds of fraud for which he is in the US facing prosecution.
Hushpuppi, in cooperation with US prosecutors, said Mr. Kyari received part of the proceeds he made.
Mr. Kyari took to his verified Facebook page to state his innocence.
Before deleting, Mr. Kyari said he did not demand any money from Hushpuppi. Instead, he introduced the accused to a cloth seller whom he (Hushpuppi) paid about N300,000.
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Later, he edited the N300,000 claim and included a section where he mentioned N8m.
A few hours after editing the post, He entirely pulled the disclaimer down from his page; this brought more suspicions.
Mr. Kyari has been under heavy criticism by many Nigerians following his statement responding to the saga.
His suspension is from the recommendation of Inspector General of Police, Usman Baba.
The police chief recommended the suspension as a temporary measure to investigate Mr. Kyari’s relationship with the renowned fraudster.
The DCP conspiracy in an alleged $1.1m fraud against a Qatari businessman deleted Facebook when most people said it lacked logic.
Abba had 447,353 followers on Facebook at the time and had been taken to Blueville on July 29, 2021, to chronicle his denial against the allegations by the US court.
Kyari had claimed that Hushpuppi raised the alarm that Vincent wanted to take his life. The cop, however, said upon the arrest of Vincent, investigation showed that “they (Hushpuppi and Vincent) are long-time friends who have money issues between them; hence we released the suspect on bail to go.
“Later, he (Hushpuppi) saw some of my native clothes and caps on my social media page, and he said he likes them, and I linked him to the person selling the clothes, and he sent about N300k (N300,000) directly to the person’s account.
Hushpuppi brought the native clothes and caps (five sets) to our office, and He sent somebody to collect them in our office.”
However, FBI Special Agent Andrew Innocenti had evidence in a document titled, ‘Criminal Complaint By Telephone Or other Reliable Electronic Means, Which he filed before the United States District Court for the Central District of California. This document shows that Hushpuppi contracted the services of Kyari after Chibuzo allegedly threatened to expose the alleged $1.1m fraud committed against the Qatari businessman.
Page 59, item 145 of the document dated February 12, 2021, which became public, recently stated that Kyari provided the account information for a bank account at a Nigerian bank, Zenith Bank, in the name of a person other than Kyari himself.
“This was not the only time that Abbas arranged payments with Kyari,” he added that on May 20, 2020, two transactions from accounts at Nigerian banks (GTBank and Zenith Bank) of a person Abbas knew in the UAE to kyari. The same Abbas partner was also arrested with Abbas in Abbas’ apartment in the UAE by Dubai Police on June 9, 2020.
“The amount on the transaction receipts is a total of 8 million Nigerian Naira,” the FBI Agent added.
Kyari subsequently deleted his “N300,000” Facebook post after Innocent’s accusation became public. He also deleted a third-party post authored by a former minister in his defense.
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Kyari presented his defense to the SIP at the Force Headquarters, Abuja, on Tuesday. The panel constituted by Inspector-General of Police, Usman Baba, is expected to probe Kyari and submit its findings to the IGP.
Tunji Disu is the new Head of the Intelligence Response Team, a Deputy Commissioner of Police. He resumed at the Guzape, Abuja headquarters of the unit on Tuesday.
