Justice Z.B. Abubakar of the Federal High Court sitting in Kaduna Wednesday, March 25, 2020 convicted and sentenced one internet fra

udster, Obi Sobenna Jude, who was prosecuted by the Kaduna Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC.
Jude pleaded guilty to the one count amended charge bordering on computer related fraud and Obtaining Money by False Pretences following a guilty plea.

His trouble began when on February 29, 2020 the intelligence and Special Operation Section, ISOS, of the zone acted on an intelligence which indicated that the convict has been defrauding unsuspecting members of the public mainly job seekers using different email addresses.

He was arrested at the New GRA, Bayan Gida Yerima Gyade, in Bauchi state where operatives of the zonal office of the Commission.

Count one reads: “That you Obi Sobenna Jude sometime in February 2020 in Kaduna within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court, fraudulently impersonated one Alex Miller whom you claimed to be an Interview Manager at Teletec also known as TTEC with intent to gain advantage for yourself, obtained the sum of $70 (Seventy US Dollars) via an iTunes Gift Card from Rebouche of the United States of America and you thereby committed an offence contrary to and punishable under Section 22 (2)(b) of the Cyber Crimes (Prohibition, Prevention, etc) Act, 2015.

The defendant pleaded guilty to the one count charge when it was read to him.

Upon his guilty plea, counsel to the EFCC, P.C Onyeneho, urged the court to convict and sentence the defendant accordingly, But A.A. Mohammed, counsel to the defendant, prayed the Court to temper justice with mercy as his client was a first-time offender.

Justice Abubakar, in her ruling convicted Sobenna to one-year imprisonment with an option of a fine of N300,000, the judge also ordered the convict to forfeit his HP Laptop worth N230,000 and one Samsung S8 worth N110,000 to the Federal Government of Nigeria.



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March 25, 2020