By EVELYN USMAN

Abuja — Four persons have been been arrested by policemen at the Federal Capital Territory for impersonating  officials of Association of Bureau de Change Operators of Nigeria.

The suspects identified  simply as Osuagwu,Balogun, Bashir and Agidi were reportedly arrested, following several complaints issued against them by the First Information Report.

The suspects, according to the FIR, are alleged to have made forged letter head of the association which they reportedly used to write letters to some financial institutions in the country.

“ They have used that means to defraud innocent Nigerians.”

In the letter head, Osuagwu who acts as the  association’s  chairman, board of trustees, manipulated the appointment of Bashir as chairman of the caretaker committee of the association.

One of the suspects connived with a staff of the association to steal vital documents from the association’s secretariat  which were kept in the custody of  one of the suspects. This offense, according to Police, “is tantamount to criminal conspiracy, impersonation, theft,criminal breach of trust, forgery and using as forged documents contrary to sections 97 (1) 179, 321, 289, 311, 364 and 366 of the penal code as applicable to the FCT.”