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Court Convicts Eight Cybercriminals in Uyo
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The Uyo Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Wednesday March 16, 2022, secured the conviction and sentencing of eight internet fraudsters before Justice Rosemary Dugbo Oghoghorie of the Federal High Court, Calabar.
Sunday Ifeanyi Iheanacho, Solomon Wisdom Chiagozie, Maurice Ingbe Ebiale, Ikechukwu Nzebuchi Miracle, Ahmed Sunny, Awoyugno Femi Kolade, Ikegbu Isidore Chiebuka and Uwaiwu Duke were convicted and sentenced to one year imprisonment each after pleading guilty to charges bordering on criminal impersonation and obtaining by false pretense, contrary to the provisions of Section 22(2)(b)(i) of the Cybercrimes (Prohibition, Prevention etc) Act 2015.
Two Bag 10 Years Jail Term For Oil Fraud In Lagos
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The Lagos Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Thursday, March 17, 2022, secured the conviction of one Epebinu Omoniyi, his company, Pure Pack Oil Nigeria Ltd., as well as Adekanbi Adedayo and his company, First Hallmark Energy Ltd., who were prosecuted before Justice S.S. Ogunsanya of the Lagos State High Court sitting in Ikeja, for offences bordering on conspiracy to obtain money by false pretence, obtaining by false pretence, conspiracy to commit felony and forgery.
They were first arraigned alongside their companies on October 16, 2017 on an eight-count charge bordering on conspiracy to obtain money by false pretence, obtaining by false pretence, conspiracy to commit felony and forgery.
Fake America Contractor Bags Six Months Imprisonment for Cybercrime in Kwara
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Justice Muhammed Sani of the Federal High Court sitting in Ilorin on Thursday, March 17, 2022 sentenced 24-year-old Taiwo Oluwapelumi Emmanuel from Ibadan, Oyo State to six months imprisonment for offences one-count charge bordering on impersonation.
He allegedly posed as a citizen of the United States of America to defraud unsuspecting victims.
The defendant was among the suspected internet fraudsters arrested in Ogbomosho area of Oyo State on October 26, 2021 during a sting operations by the Ilorin Zonal Command of the EFCC.
EFCC Arrests Church Founder Wanted By FBI for Wire Fraud in Enugu
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Operatives of the Enugu Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, have arrested Kelechi Vitalis Anozie, a suspect on the watch list of the US Federal Bureau of Investigation, FBI.
He was arrested on March 10, 2022, following credible intelligence linking him to alleged conspiracy, wire fraud and money laundering.
EFCC Arraigns One For N1.7m Land Scam In Kaduna
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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Kaduna Zonal Command, on Wednesday, March 16, 2022, arraigned one Muhammad Lawal before Justice Abdulkarim Mahmud of the Kaduna State High Court sitting in Zaria, on one- count charge bordering on criminal misappropriation to the tune of N1, 770, 000.00( One Million, Seven Hundred and Seventy Thousand Naira only).
The charge reads, "That you, Muhammad Lawal sometime in March, 2020 in Zaria, within the Judicial Division of this Honourable Court, while acting as an agent of Adamu Magaji dishonestly misappropriated a total sum of N1,770,000 (One Million, Seven Hundred and Seventy Thousand Naira only ) given to you by one Buhari Abubakar as a payment for the purchase of a farmland situate at Laluko near Gibeon Children School Maje Road, Sabon Gari, Zaria to deliver same to the said Adamu Magaji and you thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 293 of the Kaduna State Penal Code Law, 2017 and punishable under Section 294 of the same Law".
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