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NANS Executive Bags One Year Jail Term for N195m Internet Fraud …39 Others Convicted in Ibadan
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The Ibadan Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC has secured the conviction and sentencing of Director of Logistics of the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS), Federal University, Oye-Ekiti Chapter, Adeyemi Israel Abiodun to one year imprisonment for internet-related fraud.
He is among 40 persons convicted on separate one count charges before four judges of the Oyo State High Court, Ibadan.
Their offences bordered on impersonation, obtaining money under false pretence, obtaining property by false pretence and forgery contrary to Sections 419, 467, 484, 516 and 508 of the Criminal Code Law Cap 38, Laws of Oyo State, 2000.
EFCC Charges Banks on Compliance with SCUML Regulations
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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has called on Heads of Operations of Banks in Benue State to enforce compliance of their customers with regulations requiring registration and certification by the Special Control Unit Against Money Laundering, SCUML as stipulated in the Money Laundering (Prevention and Prohibition) Act 2022.
The Makurdi Zonal Commander, Assistant Commander of the EFCC, ACE Friday Ebelo, gave the charge on Tuesday, August 23, 2022, during a sensitization programme for financial institutions in Makurdi, Benue State.
EFCC Charges Muslim Youths to Eschew Corruption
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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Friday, August 19, 2022, called on Muslim Youths to eschew all forms of financial crimes, including corruption. Assistant Commander of the EFCC Joseph Ogwiji, Deputy Commandant of the EFCC Academy, Karu, Abuja, made the plea while addressing children and youth of the Al-Habibiyyah Islamic Society during an excursion to the EFCC Academy.
According to him, “One of the trending crimes we have now that is prevalent is cybercrime also known as 419 or yahoo-yahoo. As you are growing up you may have heard that they make a lot of money, but again they only make such money at the earlier stage in their crime life but they don’t end well; most times they end up in prison, so it is something you shouldn’t think of doing at all.”
Ogwiji charged the youths to instead focus on their studies and imbibe the spirit of hard work, diligence and determination in order to achieve the level of success that God has destined for them.
Impersonator, Two Others Arrested for Fraud in Kano
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The Kano Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC have arrested one Gazali Ado , a 35-year-old impersonator who posed as an operative of the EFCC on the Google map.
He was arrested following a petition by one Kenneth Nwarize who alleged that the suspect defrauded him of the sum of N150,000 (One Hundred and Fifty Thousand Naira Only) under the pretext that he is an operative of the Commission.
The petitioner alleged that he came across the phone number (+2348115177852) of the suspect while he was searching for the EFCC on Google to lodge a complaint; he called the number and the suspect fraudulently solicited for the sum of N150, 000 which was paid into the bank account of one Ibrahim Mohammed.
Man Bags 5Months Jail Term for Internet Fraud in Kaduna
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The Kaduna Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC has secured the conviction and sentencing of one Sanni Joshua Omeiza before Justice N.U Sadiq of the Kaduna State High Court on a one count charge for Internet-related fraud.
The charge reads: “That you, Sanni Joshua Omezia ( aka Bernard Stephen) between January to July, 2022 at Kaduna within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court committed an offence to with, falsely presented yourself as Bernard Stephen, a software developer and a Web designer from Switzerland and in that assumed character cheated Miss Lanina and several other unsuspecting victims of the total sum of $1700.00 (One Thousand Seven Hundred US Dollars) and you thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 308 of the Kaduna State Penal Code Law of 2017 and punishable under Section 309 of the Same Law”.
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