Man Bags Six Months Jail Term for Internet Fraud
The Abuja Zonal Command of the EFCC on Tuesday, February 21, 2023 secured the conviction of one Eyang Bethel Eyam before Justice C.O. Agashieze of the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory, Kwali, on a one count charge bordering on internet fraud.
Eyam ‘M’ 23 years old sometime in 2022 at Abuja did cheat by impersonation when he presented himself to two Chinese women using the profile names ‘Chen’, ‘Chengi’ and ‘Ziang’ on WECHAT and INSTAGRAM online apps and obtained the sums of 8,000 and 50000 Yauns, where you benefited the sum of Six Hundred Thousand Naira (N600,000) which was paid into your Zenith Bank account number 2253820008, a fact you know to be false and you thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 321 of the Penal Code Act, Laws of the Federation (Abuja), 1990 and punishable under Section 324 of the same Law.
The defendant pleaded guilty to the charge and was convicted and sentenced by Justice Agashieze to six months in prison without an option of fine. He is also to forfeit his phone and the financial proceeds of his crime (N600, 000) to the Federal Government.
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