Police might have received the break that they were looking for in a three year long investigation into an Internet based fraud scheme that allegedly involves Nigerians when two Americans attempted to deposit a $57 million check into a bank here on Wednesday.
But officers in the Commercial Crimes Unit of the Royal Bahamas Police Force were still working to confirm the potential link.
Michael Gabriel, 62, of Miami, and John Delph, 71, of Ohio, were taken into custody and were being interrogated after they tried to deposit the cheque into an account at the First Caribbean International Bank, Shirley Street.
The arrests were made as police investigators were continuing to try to crack an advanced fraud scheme, allegedly involving Nigerians, that is being perpetrated over the Internet and pitched to prominent businesspersons and managers here.
But investigations, up to this point, had led officers on a wild goose chase, according to the officer in charge of the unit Assistant Superintendent of Police Drexel Cartwright.
Under the scheme letters are sent over the Internet to individuals of means proposing an investment opportunity that promises a high rate of returns.
“When we first were informed about the letters on the Internet from Nigerians that either operate from the United States
