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Alleged N38.5m Fraud: EFCC Presents Second Witness, Closes Case Against Defendant
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The trial of one Ikemefuna Iwunoh for an alleged N38.5million fraud before Justice Mojisola Dada of the Special Offences Court sitting in Ikeja, Lagos continued today, July 26, 2021, with the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, presenting its second witness, Joseph Gandapa, and also closing its case.
Iwunoh, who was first arraigned in December 2019, is facing a two-count charge bordering on stealing and obtaining by false pretence.
Man Docked for N6.7m Car Scam in Kaduna
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The Kaduna Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Monday, July 26, 2021 arraigned one Aliyu Iliyasu before Justice M.T. Tukur of the Kaduna State High Court, Kaduna on a one count charge bordering on criminal breach of trust.
The charge reads, “that, you Ilyasu sometime in December, 2019 in Kaduna within the Judicial Division of this Honourable Court while being entrusted with the sum of N 6,775,000.00 ( Six Million Seven Hundred and Seventy Five Thousand Naira ) only by one Abubakar Sarki for the purchase of a Mercedes Benz GLK SUV, dishonestly misappropriated the said amount in violation of the mode in which the trust was to be discharged and you thereby committed a criminal breach of trust contrary to Section 296 of the Kaduna State Penal Code Law 2017 and punishable under Section 297 of the same Law”.
Court Convicts Son, Mother, Girlfriend for $902,935 Internet Fraud in Asaba
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Justice F. A. Olubanjo of the Federal High Court sitting in Asaba, Delta State on Thursday July 22, convicted and sentenced Gift Kenneth, Dora Animam and Spice Chimzi Dandy Igwe to prison for internet-related fraud.
Kenneth, his biological mother, Animam and girlfriend, Igwe were arraigned on one count charge each by the Benin Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission for offences bordering on impersonation and obtaining by false pretences. They were said to have conspired to defraud an American lady, Lucinda Ann Garnes Henrichson of an aggregate sum of $902,935.
Two Arraigned for Canadian Visa Scam in Kaduna
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The Kaduna Zonal office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC today July 26, 2021 arraigned the duo of Mary Aweh and Olaleye Samuel Oluwadamilare before Justice M.T. Tukur of Kaduna State High Court, Kaduna on a six count charge bordering on Advance Fee Fraud.
Count one of the charge reads, “that you Mary Aweh and Olaleye Samuel Oluwadamilare sometime in March, 2018 in Kaduna within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court, with intent to defraud did conspire to commit an offence to wit: obtaining a total sum of N 4,240,000 ( Four Million Two Hundred and Forty Thousand Naira) only from the duo of Asika Tochukwu Casmir and Daniel Alabi Monday under the false pretence that you can obtain Canadian visa for them which pretence you knew to be false and you thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 8(a) of the Advance Fee Fraud and Other Fraud Related Offences Act 2006 and punishable under the Section 1(3) of the same Act”.
EFCC Convicts Man 10 Years for Land Scam
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Justice Darius Khobo of the Kaduna State High Court sitting in Kaduna have convicted and sentenced one Gershon Tenyi Kasham to 10 years prison term on one count amended charge bordering on criminal misappropriation.
The convict was jailed over payment he received for a plot of land along Sir Patrick Yakowa Road which he sold to a complainant and it turned out that the land was no vacant.
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