The Kaduna Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has secured the conviction of one Mathew Nwanosike before Justice A.A Bello of the Kaduna State High Court on a one count charge bordering on identity theft.

Mathew who confessed to have defrauded several victims under various guises, met his Waterloo when he faked the identity of a foreign building contractor named Brian Robert.

The one count charge reads; “That you, Mathew Smith Nwanosike ( aka Brian Robert) sometime in September, 2022 in Kaduna Judicial Division of the High Court with intent to cheat, falsely represented yourself as one Brian Robert, a building contractor and cheated one Rhian and Stella on plenty of fish ( an online dating site) and other several online social media applications and you thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 142 of the Kaduna State Penal Code Law, 2017 and punishable under the same Law”.

He pleaded guilty to the charge.

Consequently, the prosecution counsel, E.K Garba urged the court to convict the defendant accordingly.

Justice Bello convicted and sentenced the defendant to three months imprisonment with option of N 100,000.00 fine. He is to also forfeit an iPhone with serial No. XR F2XP30HKXKQ and a total sum of N 1,500,000.00 to the Federal Government.

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9 November, 202