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EFCC Sensitizes Real Estate Operators, Warns Against Money Laundering
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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has charged real estate operators in Lagos to ensure due diligence on their customers as a way of checking the menace of money laundering and terrorist financing in the country.
The Lagos Zonal Commander of the EFCC, Michael T. Wetkas, gave the charge Tuesday, June 27, 2023, in his address to participants at a sensitisation workshop on Anti-Money Laundering, Combating the Financing of Terrorism and Countering Proliferation Financing, AML/CFT/CPF organized by the Special Control Unit against Money Laundering, SCUML at the Lagos Zonal Command of the EFCC, Ikoyi.
Hair Stylist Bags Two Years Imprisonment for Internet Fraud in Benin
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Justice Efe Ikponmwonba of the Edo State High Court sitting in Benin City on Tuesday, June 27, 2023 convicted and sentenced Idoko Innocent, a hair stylist, to two years imprisonment for internet fraud.
The convict journey to prison began following his arrest by operatives of the the Benin Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission for his involvement in internet fraud. He allegedly fraudulently represented himself as one Don Smart, a white man in his attempt to defraud unsuspecting victims, an offence contrary to and punishable under section 384(1) of the Criminal Code Law of Edo State Law, 2022.
Three Convicted for Internet Fraud, Forfeits N7m, Car in Ibadan
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An Oyo State High Court sitting in Ibadan has convicted and sentenced three internet fraudsters, Yusuf Nurudeen Mayowa, Alloy Wisdom Chibuzor and Muheez Adeshina Ayomide to various jail terms.
Yusuf was arraigned on a one count charge “aiding the Commission of felony to wit: obtaining property by false pretences”, contrary to Sections 7(b) and 419 of the Criminal Code Law Cap 38, Laws of Oyo State, 2000, while Chibuzor and Ayomide were arraigned on one count charge each for personation, contrary to Section 484 of the Criminal Code Law Cap 38, Laws of Oyo State, 2000.
EFCC Arraigns Ex-convicts for N12.8m Fraud in Maiduguri
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The Maiduguri Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Tuesday, June 27, 2023, arraigned one Bulama Yahaya Jibrin (aka Bulama Ayya) before Justice Aisha Kumaliya of Borno State High Court, Maiduguri on a one count amended charge for obtaining N 5,400,000.00 (Five Million, Four Hundred Thousand Naira) by false pretences.
The charge read: “That you, Bulama Yahaya Jibrin (aka Bulama Ayya) sometime in August, 2016 at Maiduguri, Borno State within the Jurisdiction of this Honourable Court, with intent to defraud, did obtain the sum of N 5,400,000.00 (Five Million, Four Hundred Thousand Naira) only, from Ibrahim Musa Abdulhamid under the pretence that the said amount represent payment for the purchase of a purported plot of land measuring 100 by 100 and an uncompleted house which you knew to be false and thereby committed an offence contrary to section 1 (1) of the Advance Fee Fraud and Other Fraud Related offences Act, 2006 and punishable under section 1 (3) of the same Act”.
N525million Fraud: Court of Appeal Upholds Conviction of Internet Fraudster
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The Calabar Division of the Court of Appeal, on Friday, June 23, 2023 upheld the conviction of a notorious international fraudster, Scales Olatunji who was convicted for internet fraud and money laundering charges by a Federal High Court, sitting in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State.
Justice Agatha Okeke had on June 27, 2022 found Olatunji guilty of forty-five count charges of internet fraud and money laundering preferred against him by the Uyo Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Commission, EFCC and sentenced him to 235 years imprisonment, without an option of a fine.
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