Simisola Gold, aka Omoseyin Oluwadarasimi Esther, with the Twitter handle @SimisolaofLala, has been arrested by the ICPC for selling new naira notes on social media.
This was stated in a statement released by the ICPC on Wednesday night in Abuja and signed by Azuka Ogugua. According to the statement, the suspect was quickly located and detained as a result of intelligence that the ICPC agents had obtained.
According to the statement: “Oluwadarasimi Emma, a social media ‘serial entrepreneur’ who deals in skincare, sales of fuel, facilitation of foreign travels through visa acquisitions, and other businesses, seized the opportunity of the scarcity of the new naira notes to openly market the new notes.
It is believed she is in collusion with key elements in the financial services sector diverting the newly released notes away from banking halls and payment channels into a ‘black market.’