By Ola ‘Kiya, Reporting
OPERATIVES of the Makurdi Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) have arrested six suspected internet fraudsters in Makurdi, Benue State.
They were arrested on Friday, October 7, 2022, at their hideout in a hotel in Makurdi, Benue State.
Exhibits
The suspects were Innocent Joy, Karean Bitto, Iwuji Trans Ugochukwu, Samuel Kpemyol, Tonny Ochekwu and Jassey Jimmy.
Items recovered from them included laptops, IPads, iPhones, two cars and various brands of electronic products.
Exhibits
Meanwhile, Justices Ijeoma Ojukwu and Agatha Okeke of the Federal High Court sitting in Calabar, Cross River State, and Uyo, Akwa Ibom State, have convicted and sentenced five internet fraudsters to various jail terms.
The convicts
The convicts: Mmabuchi Anthony Chinaemerem, John Bassey Akpan, Eneji Matthew Ngaji, Louis Samuel Akanimoh and Uchenna Ibekwe, were jailed on Wednesday, October 5, 2022 and Tuesday, October 4, 2022 respectively, for fraudulent impersonation and obtaining by false pretence.
The convicts
While Chinaemerem, Akpan and Ngaji were convicted by Justice Ojukwu, Akanimoh and Ibekwe were jailed by Justice Okeke.
They were all convicted after pleading guilty to one-count separate charges, when arraigned by the Uyo Zonal Command of the EFCC.
Similarly, the FCC, last Tuesday, arraigned the Managing Director of Saphire Scents Ltd, Adewale Aladejana, before Justice M. A Madugu of the Federal High Court sitting in Bwari, Abuja, for obtaining money under false pretence to the tune of N12,000,000 only.
Adewale
He was arraigned on three- count charges, bordering on misappropriation and obtaining under false pretence.
Specifically, he allegedly collected the N12 million from potential investors in his company, with a promise of turnover in six months, without offering any profit or returning the invested funds to his investors.
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