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Alleged $5m Fraud: EFCC Presents More Evidence Against Pilot, Businessman
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The trial of Victor Uadiale and Capt. Everest Nnaji before Justice Mojisola Dada of the Special Offences Court sitting in Ikeja, Lagos for an alleged $5million (Five Million United States Dollars) fraud continued on Monday, June 21, 2021, with the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, presenting more evidence against them.
Uadiale and Nnaji are facing a three-count charge bordering on obtaining by false pretence to the tune of $5million (Five Million United States Dollars), to which they pleaded "not guilty", when they were first arraigned on December 14, 2018.
Facebook Scammer Bags 10 Years in Sokoto
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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Sokoto Zonal Office on Monday, June 21, 2021 secured the conviction of Murtala Abdullateef before Justice Malami Dogondaji of the Sokoto State High Court sitting in Sokoto on one count charge, for attempting to defraud foreigners through Facebook while presenting himself as a United States Army General serving in war-torn Syria.
The charge reads, "that you Murtala Abdullateef sometime in May, 2021 in Sokoto, within the Judicial Division of the High Court of Justice of Sokoto State, dishonestly hacked into Facebook accounts of several European women with intent to defraud them of their hard-earned monies wherein you represented yourself to them as a General in the U. S Army on a peace keeping mission in Syria and you thereby attempted to commit the offence of cheating contrary to Section 58 of the Sokoto State Penal Code Law 2019 and punishable under Section 311 of the same Law".
EFCC Arrests Two for Alleged N768.5m Fraud
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Operatives of the Lagos Zonal Office of Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, have arrested two suspected fraudsters, Konne Israel Barieeba and Osuji Miracle Obieze, for obtaining money by false pretence to the tune of N768, 585, 000.00 (Seven Hundred and Sixty-eight Million, Five Hundred and Eighty-five Thousand Naira).
The suspects, alongside Obialor Christian Worenwu (now at large), allegedly approached an investment company, Luxury Gold, for an investment loan facility.
Undergraduate in EFCC’s Net Over $4801 Internet-Related Fraud
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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Kaduna Zonal office have commenced investigation into an alleged case of conspiracy, computer-related fraud and benefitting from proceeds of crime levelled against one Okhipo David, who claims to be an undergraduate.
David who was arrested on Monday, 15 March, 2021, had sometime in November 2012, presented himself as a staff of a new generation bank, requested for the account details of a complainant in order to update some information on the account. The complainant suspected fraud and refused to oblige his request.
Court Convicts Two over N10m Dud Cheque
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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on June 17, 2021 secured the conviction of Yinka Bello and Energy Fields Nigeria Limited before Justice K. N. Ogbonnaya of the Federal Capital Territory High Court, Abuja.
The conviction followed a change of plea by the defendants from “not guilty” to “guilty”, pursuant to a plea bargain agreement with the prosecution.
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