How Daystar, Elevation Church got entangled in N22b Ponzi scheme
A couple, identified as Bamise Samson and Elizabeth Ajetunmobi, have disappeared into thin air with investors’ N22 billion.
The couple, said to be owners of Imagine Global Solutions (Imagine Lenders) Investment Scheme, allegedly scammed people to the tune of N22 billion.
Many distraught investors have taken to social media to express their shock and revealed how much they had invested.
A particular investor was said to be suicidal. Also, a WhatsApp group has been created where victims are urged to join and talk about their investments and how to track and locate the fleeing couple.
Some of the investors are said to be members of different churches in Nigeria, including Daystar Christian Centre and The Elevation Church.
PiggyVest was also said to be a victim.
However, TEC and PiggyVest had promptly denied the allegation by coming out with statements.
Different people have taken to social media to reveal their ordeals.
One of them said his friend invested N20 million, asking how he could join the WhatsApp group for victims.
Another investor stated that he invested N69.5 million.
Another person said: “A friend’s company invested 1 Billion. And their office is currently locked. She told me this week, no trace of them yet.”
A woman mentioned that her husband invested almost N90 million.
Another woman stated her husband, who was a senior colleague of Ajetunmobi when they were in Zenith Bank PLC, had invested almost N30 million.
While revealing that she knew many people who invested in Ajetunmobi’s scheme, added that the man last week stopped picking her husband’s phone calls.
She added: “One guy resigned from Zenith bank due to plenty of returns he was getting from the investment, he raised 500 Million from different people. Now the guy has been suicidal….I heard they (Bamise and Elizabeth) bought a big house at Banana Island also.”
Latest information however has it that the couple, with a home in highbrow Banana Island in Lagos State, and known for going for expensive trips, no longer live Nigeria.
They are believed to be in …