A billionaire businessman from Nigeria, a country known for its scam emails and phishing schemes, finds himself the victim.
Two Canadian sisters with a substantial Instagram following were arrested this week for allegedly extorting and cyber-bullying a wealthy Nigerian businessman.
Jyoti and Kiran Matharoo, who play at “Keeping Up with the Kardashians” on their rather vulgar Instagram feeds, allegedly told Nigerian energy magnate Femi Otedola (net worth $1.8 billion, according to Forbes) that they would release evidence he was having an affair unless he paid them a substantial sum to keep quiet. Otedola filed a complaint with Nigerian authorities, who took the sisters into custody.
Otedola retained his own investigators and uncovered an alleged history of unscrupulous activities by the Matharoo sisters. He claims the pair have previously had sex with wealthy men or surreptitiously recorded incriminating conversations, before demanding fat stacks to keep quiet. The pair ran a website aggregating videos and photos of their liaisons, though the domain name has since lapsed. Housewives in well-placed Nigerian circles refer to the sisters as “twin menace.” (RELATED: See The Sexiest Abigail Ratchford Photos On The Internet [SLIDESHOW])
The sisters released a video through a Nigerian press outlet apologizing to Otedola for the scheme.
Court documents filed in the case show the sisters face charges for “the humiliation and cyber-bullying of some 274 persons, mostly based in Africa,” on their website or on their social media accounts. Authorities found several iPads and laptops which corroborated the findings of Otedola’s private investigators. Nigerian press say they devices hosted photos and videos of the sisters with some of the most powerful men in the country — including business leaders and politicians — before exchanging text messages and emails demanding lavish payments.
The Matharoos will appear in a Nigerian court in January. The Toronto Star reports the Canadian embassy in Abuja has been providing consular services to the sisters since their arrest in the city of Lagos.
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