{{Nigerian police said they had arrested a 28-year-old man wanted in connection with the death of an Australian woman and for defrauding her of $90,000 in an online dating scam.}}<\/p>\n
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) told media that Orowo Jesse Omokoh was arrested on January 28 in Nigeria, without stating where exactly.<\/p>\n
The graduate, who attended the University of Ibadan, in the southwest of the country, will be brought before court for extradition proceedings, a spokesman said.<\/p>\n
Omokoh is alleged to have struck up a fake online romance with Jette Jacobs, but five days after he moved to Johannesburg, South Africa, to meet her in February last year, she was found dead.<\/p>\n
Some of her valuables were missing and Omokoh had returned to Nigeria.<\/p>\n
“The South African police, which is investigating the mysterious death, are suspicious that Omokoh has a hand in the demise of Jacobs,” the EFCC said.<\/p>\n
The organisation, which investigates money-laundering and online scams, said Australian Federal Police informed officers in March that Omokoh had allegedly defrauded Jacobs of $90,000.<\/p>\n
Jacobs, a grandmother from Western Australia, reportedly sent tens of thousands of dollars to Nigeria during her four-year “romance” with a man known as “Jesse”, according to Australian media.<\/p>\n
The 67-year-old is said to have previously met him in Johannesburg in 2010 without incident.<\/p>\n
Her body was found on February 9. The EFCC said Omokoh had given “useful” information and “efforts are on to track his accomplices”.<\/p>\n
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