Justice Adamu Turaki Mohammed of the Federal High Court sitting in Port Harcourt on Friday, April 9, indicted and condemned 11 web fraudsters to different jail terms, for extortion.
Those sentenced are Anhwo Samson, Harry Omo-egbekun Hamilton, Odiase Martins, Okuson Godspower, Destiny Ighalo, Andrew Onoyoa, Omebu Happy, Enofe Michael, Adelakun Abdulkareem, Akpowowo Favor, and Imaah Joseph.
The convicts were indicted by the Benin Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, for offenses verging on pantomime and getting affectation misrepresentation.
The charge peruses: "that you Anhwo Samson (also known as Anhwo Samcity), Adelakun Abdulkareem (otherwise known as Terry Walker), Omebu Happy (otherwise known as Christ David), Imaah Joseph (also known as Pietro Jones) Enofe Michael (otherwise known as Charlotte Crypto B.T.C Dan Trader) and Akpowowo Favor Omanufogho (otherwise known as Prof. Melisa Dan) approximately the multi day of July 2020 at Efemena Close, Ozoro inside the locale of this Honorable Court did planned to dupe by sending electronic messages tangibly distorting realities to white ladies with purpose to cheat them and along these lines perpetrated an offense as opposed to Section 27 (1)(b) of the Cybercrime (Prohibition, Prevention, Etc) Act, 2015 and culpable under Section 14(2) a similar Act".
They all confessed to one count charge each liked as a detriment to them by the Commission.
Taking into account their supplications, the arraignment counsel, Ahmed Arogha asked the court to convict and sentence the litigants likewise.
Be that as it may, John Okhuihievbe and O.A. Egharevba, guidance to the respondents begged the court to temper equity with kindness as the litigants were first-time guilty parties who had gotten repentant.
Equity Mohammed indicted and condemned every one of the respondents to different terms of detainment.
Samson stowed two years detainment or a fine of N200,000. He is additionally to relinquish N3,684,439.18 (3,000,000, 600 and 84 thousand, 400 and 39 naira, eighteen kobo) to the central government while Ighalo got two years detainment or a fine 500,000. Ighalo is to relinquish a Lexus SUV 330 model, workstations, and telephones to the central government. Andrew Onoyoa was condemned to 3 years detainment or a fine of N1 million. He is additionally to relinquish Lexus 230 SUV and a Toyota Camry vehicle to the central government.
Different respondents Godspower, Happy, Enofe, Joseph, Favor, Abdulkareem, and Martin were condemned to two years detainment each with a choice of a fine of N200,000 each. Hamilton sacked two years detainment or a fine of N100,000.
Every one of the convicts are to embrace recorded as a hard copy to be of appropriate conduct.
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