A Nigerian man has been arrested for allegedly luring an American woman to Nigeria and defrauding her of US$48,000, police told CNN on Tuesday.
The 64-year-old woman, who hasn't been named, said she met Chukwuebuka Kasi Obiaku, 34, on Facebook, police spokesman Frank Mba said. He invited her to Nigeria under the "pretext of love and marriage."
However, the relationship deteriorated soon after the wedding, and Obiaku kept her captive in a Lagos hotel for more than a year, Mba told CNN.He forced her "to use her American accent to ask associates and organizations for money. He made her assume several characters and in a particular case, he told her to act as a nanny on the phone to swindle some people," Mba told CNN.
CNN has not been able to reach Obiaku, who is still being held by police, to determine if he has a lawyer. The woman was eventually rescued after police received a tip-off about the case from another Nigerian.
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