Nigeria conman serving a 24-year jail term for fraud pulls off a scam worth Rs 7 crore from prison
R Sinduja
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Can a criminal commit a crime from jail? yes, a conman from Nigeria just proved that it is possible. Hope Olusegun Aroke was caught by police in 2012 for scamming people under false pretence and using forgery. He was sentenced to the Kirikiri Maximum Prison in Lagos over fraud charges. He somehow managed to build a network inside the prison and ran a scam worth Rs 7 crores, cheating innocent people from around the world.
