Two sisters from Toronto with a substantial Instagram following have been detained in Lagos, Nigeria, reportedly to face allegations that they tried to extort and cyber-bully a Nigerian billionaire. According to the news site Politics Nigeria, sisters Jyoti and Kiran Matharoo are accused of trying to blackmail the billionaire by claiming they had evidence of businessman Femi Otedola cheating on his wife that they would post on a notorious sex-scandal website. Forbes magazine’s list of 2016 billionaires says Otedola made his money in the energy sector; it estimates his net worth at $1.8 billion. 
 
 Kiran Matharoo, seen in photo from her Instagram account, is reportedly being detained in Lagos, Nigeria. ( instagram photo ) Jyoti Matharoo, seen in photo from her Instagram account, is reportedly being detained in Lagos, Nigeria. ( instagram photo ) 
 
 Following a private investigation, the sisters were arrested, the publication said. According to a court document dated Dec. 20 and posted to Nigeria Politics, the sisters stand accused of being “responsible” for the website NaijaGistLive and several other social media accounts on Instagram and Twitter used for “cyberbullying” around 274 people, “mostly based in various regions of Africa.” A Toronto home address has been entered in the document for the sisters. 
 
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 Combined, Jyoti and Kiran have nearly 50,000 followers on Instagram. Other local media supported the Politics Nigeria account of the sisters’ legal troubles. Global Affairs Canada confirmed to the Star that consular services were being provided to the Canadian citizens who have been detained in Lagos, Nigeria. 
 
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 A pair of sisters from Toronto have reportedly been arrested for attempting to extort and cyberbully a Nigerian millionaire. 
 
 Police in Laos, Nigeria, arrested sisters Jyoti and Kiran Matharoo earlier this month for their alleged roll in extorting and cyberbullying Femi Otedola, chairman of Forte Oil, as well as his wife, Nana, and daughter, who’s famously known as DJ Cuppy. 
 
 The Matharoo sisters are accused of blackmailing Otedola through the now-defunct website NaijaGistLive and its various Twitter and Instagram accounts, according to court documents dated Dec. 20. The sisters, who together have more than 50,000 Instagram followers, reportedly said they had evidence that Otedola cheated on his wife, which they threatened to publish unless Otedola paid them an unknown sum of money. The court documents claim the Matharoo sisters also attempted to extort and cyberbully a total of 274 people in a number of African countries. 
 
 According to Nigerian news site the Capital, the Matharoo sisters appeared in the Yaba Magistrate Court 1 on Dec. 23, and signed confession statements admitting to running NaijaGistLive. The sisters, who are accused of being escorts, also reportedly confessed to having sex with approximately 100 wealthy Nigerian men. They also reportedly apologized to Otedola. 
 
 The Matharoo sisters are scheduled to appear in court again on Jan. 26. 
 
 H/T Toronto Star ||||| Two Canadian sisters with large Instagram followings have been arrested in Nigeria and charged with threatening to blackmail and extort a well-known African billionaire online. 
 
 
 
 The website Nigeria Politics first reported that the sisters, Jyoti and Kiran Matharoo, threatened to release information about wealthy Nigerian businessman Femi Otedola, claiming they had evidence that the energy tycoon had cheated on his wife. The Matharoos reportedly threatened to go public with the details if Otedola did not pay them off. 
 
 Otedola, who Forbes estimates is worth about $1.8 billion, hired investigators to look into the sisters. They discovered the sisters have a history of recording conversations and having sex with rich men — then threatening to release the recordings, photos, or videos on the now-defunct website Naijagistlive.com. After learning the details, Otedola filed a complaint against the two women and they were taken into custody on Dec. 23. 
 
 Nigeria Politics publisher Dumebi Ifeanyi told CityNews.ca that the sisters “were caught with laptops and iPads that had the information of different people, including videotapes of men having sex with them…politicians, top ranking businessmen in Nigeria. They also found email messages they exchanged with some people, blackmailing them, trying to extort money from them.”
– Someone alert Alanis Morissette because a Nigerian billionaire is apparently on the receiving end of an alleged internet scam. The Toronto Star reports the ironic situation is unfolding around two sisters from Toronto—Jyoti and Kiran Matharoo—recently arrested in Lagos, Nigeria. The sisters Matharoo were "fixtures in the nightlife scene" there, regularly getting into Instagram fights with the wives of rich Nigerian men, according to BuzzFeed. But Nigerian energy magnate Femi Otedola—reported worth: $1.8 billion—says the sisters claimed they had evidence of him cheating on his wife and threatened to expose him if he didn't pay them off. They appeared in court Dec. 23, the Daily Dot reports. Private investigators hired by Otedola say the Matheroos recorded conversations and themselves having sex with wealthy men, then threatened to put the evidence on a website they operated. They allegedly used the website and its associated social media accounts to cyberbully around 275 people "mostly based in various regions of Africa," including Otedola, his wife, Nana, and their daughter DJ Cuppy. The sisters are also accused of being escorts, and Nigerian authorities say they've admitted to having sex with 100 rich Nigerian men. The Canadian government confirms the Matheroos' arrest. (There's a reason those infamous Nigerian internet scams sound so ridiculous.)