Naijagistlive, an online platform popularly known for exposing illegal activities and everyday lives of celebrities by calling them out with their names and posting pictures of them, is currently under investigation by the Operatives of the Special Fraud Unit (SFU), for allegedly attempting to blackmail and defraud oil magnate Femi Otedola of money. According to reports, a young man identified as Oyedepo Babatunde, known as @Baudex on Instagram, has been arrested in connection with the case. The Nation reports that Oyedepo, 23, was alleged to have sent threat and blackmail messages to the complainants and other high profile Nigerians through a website, naijagistlive.com, demanding huge sums of money. Oyedepo, a resident of Sixth Avenue in Festac Town, was alleged to have posted a superimposed nude pictures of a lawyer on his website, alleging that she had been sleeping with her boss and other clients. According to the police, the suspect demanded N3.5million from the lawyer to remove the inappropriate picture from the site, which the victim could not afford. A police officer who spoke on condition of anonymity said “The victim had allegedly told the suspect that she has no such money in her account and that the picture posted on the website had cost her, her job, her marriage and her social life. The lawyer is among the three different persons who petitioned the suspect.” Spokesman for SFU, Lawal Audu said the suspect has three different cases pending before the unit, adding that the first two involved fraud and threat to life. According to Audu, on October 19th, one Dapo Balogun reported a case of extortion, black mail and threat to life against the suspect. “The complainant claimed that the suspect had posted on naijagistlife a story alleging that he had worked with former Petroleum Minister, Deziani Allison-Maduekwe and that throughout the period he had fraudulently acquired huge sum of money.
The complainant also claimed to have received a mail from the suspect, informing him that he should pay an undisclosed amount running into millions ."
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