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13 Ex-Govs under EFCC’s Radar over N772bn Fraud Cases
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has reopened money laundering cases against 13 former governors and some former ministers, with the amounts involved running into over N853.8bn. The amount at stake in the high-profile cases involving the former governors and ex-ministers was not less than N772.2bn, however, the anti-graft agency is currently investigating the N81.6bn…
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Oyo Civil Servant Jailed for Financial Fraud
By Oluwakayode Banjo The Chief Magistrate Court 1, Iwo Road Ibadan, presided over by Magistrate Taiwo Oladiran has on Friday, convicted one Adeleke Ronke Mary of the Oyo State Ministry of Lands to a year imprisonment for official corruption. The Oyo State Anti-Corruption Agency (OYACA) secured the conviction of Adeleke after it had investigated a…
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Tech Developer Warns Youths against Cybercrime
By Dayo Adu A tech developer, Michael Mekulehi has charged Nigerian youths to shun cybercrime in their quest to attain financial and academic success. Mekulehi gave the charge while delivering the 2023 Matriculation Lecture of the University of Ibadan. Mekulehi, A first class graduate in Mechanical Engineering of the university, who spoke on the topic: “Integrity…
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Police Arraign Accountant, Mother for Alleged N1bn, $975,102 Fraud
A chartered accountant, Omafume Ayinuola, and her mother, Lydia Ehrievuyere, have been arraigned by the police before the Federal High Court in Lagos for allegedly laundering N1,072,254,411 and $975,102.58. The daughter and mother were arraigned alongside their company, Patridia Resources Limited, before Justice Nicholas Oweibo, by the Force Criminal Investigation Department Annex, Alagbon, Ikoyi, Lagos.…
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52 in EFCC Net over Fraud
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has arrested 52 suspected internet fraudsters in Ogun State. According to the EFCC in its post on Twitter, the individuals were arrested for computer-related fraud by operatives of the Lagos Zonal Command of the anti-graft agency. According to the report, the suspects are Olamilekan Jamiu Ayuba, Ogundeyi Oluwaseun…
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EFCC Arraigns Ondo Speaker, Others over Alleged Fraud
By Kayode Animasaun The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arraigned the Speaker, Ondo State House Of Assembly, Bamidele Oloyeloogun before the state High Court in Akure, over alleged fraud. The arraignment on Tuesday marked the beginning of the official trial of the head of the state’s legislature. Also arraigned before the court, was the lawmaker…
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Court Convicts Corps Member, 38 Others for Fraud
The Ibadan Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has secured the conviction and sentencing of a Corps member, Osisi Ikenna Nicholas to one-month community service for his involvement in internet-related fraud. Osisi was convicted alongside thirty – eight others on a separate one-count charge each before Justices Bayo Taiwo, Omolara Adeyemi,…
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Osun Government Suspends Teacher for Fraud
Osun State Government has suspended a teacher, Abimbola Olowookere for allegedly defrauding some recently recruited teachers to the tune of N30,000 claiming to influence their posting. Reports got to the Osun State Ministry of Education that said Mr Olowookere has been collecting the money from the teachers in Osun East Education District so as to…
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Court Remands POS Operator for Alleged Fraud
An Osogbo Magistrate Court has remanded 22-year-old Kareem Hammed in Ilesa correctional centre over an alleged N.2 million fraud. The State Police Command had arraigned the suspect on a four-count charge bordering on fraud and theft. Police prosecutor, ASP Mustapha Tajudeen told the court that the defendant, who worked as a POS agent at Olori…
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Court Remands AGF,Idris Others in Kuje Prison
An FCT High Court on Friday ordered that the suspended Accountant-General of the Federation, Ahmed Idris, and three others be remanded in Kuje Correctional Facility over alleged N109.5 billion fraud. Other defendants are Olusegun Akindele, Mohammed Usman and Gezawa Commodity Market and Exchange Limited. The Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC) arraigned them on a…
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Court Sentences Two to Jail For Fraud
A Sokoto State High Court has convicted and sentenced two people to three years imprisonment each for committing an Automated Teller Machine fraud. Abdulmajeed Habeeblah and Nana Hauwau Umar were convicted after pleading guilty to two counts of charges bordering on criminal conspiracy and theft by the presiding judge, Justice Mohammed Mohammed. The convicts were…
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Man Bags 235 Years Jail Term for Fraud
Justice Agatha Okeke of the Federal High Court, Uyo has convicted and sentenced a notorious international fraudster, Scales Olatunji, to 235years imprisonment for internet fraud and money laundering. Olatunji was arraigned on July 2, 2019 on 45-count charges bordering on identity theft, money laundering and conspiracy. He pleaded “not guilty” to the charges, thus setting…
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EFCC arrests Ahmed Idris, Accountant General of the Federation for N80 billion fraud
Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Monday, May 16, 2022 arrested serving Accountant General of the Federation, Mr Ahmed Idris in connection with diversion of funds and money laundering activities to the tune of N80 billion, Eighty Billion Naira, only. The Commission’s verified intelligence showed that the AGF raked off the…
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BREAKING: Hushpuppi Commits $400k Fraud Inside U.S Prison — FBI.
New accusations have been allegedly filed against arrested detained Nigerian Instagram big boy, Hushpuppi, claiming that he committed fraud and laundered more than $400,000 while still in jail in the U.S. However an American cybercrime expert, Gary Warner has debunked the circulating document, saying that it is “fake and intended to get people to visit…
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Ex-banker, Wife, Mother–In-Law Jailed Over Fraud
A former bank cashier, Ebenezer Adeolu Alonge alongside his wife, Isakunle Olamide Oyinlola and his mother-in- law, Isakunle Eunice Moradeke were on Friday, July 23, 2021 convicted and sentenced to Sixty (60) years imprisonment by Justice Adekanye Ogunmoye of Ekiti State High Court, Ado Ekiti on a 12-count charge of conspiracy and stealing contrary to…
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Former Army Officer, 33 Others Arrested for Suspected Internet Fraud
Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Ibadan Zonal Office, in the early hours of Tuesday, arrested a former soldier, Adebisi Jamiu and 33 others for suspected internet fraud. In a statement signed by the Head, Media and Publicity, Wilson Uwujaren, the EFCC says the suspects were picked up in different locations in Osogbo,…
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EFCC Re-arraigns Woman, Boyfriend for Fraud
The Ibadan zonal office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has re-arraigned one Alice Peace John, alongside her boyfriend, Fadi Alloush before Justice Bayo Taiwo of the Oyo State High Court, Ibadan for fraud in the sale of charcoal. The duo were dragged to the court on three-count charges of conspiracy, stealing and obtaining the…
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EFCC Nabs Siblings on Suspicion of Being Internet Fraudsters
Operatives of the the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Ibadan zonal office, have arrested two pairs of brothers : Ayoola Timilehin, Olusola Timilehin, and Oladayo Fayemi, Tolulope Fayemi and three others suspected to be internet fraudsters. They were arrested at their hide out on Wednesday, September 9, 2020 at Alaka, Elebu area of Ibadan,…
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Cleric Arraigned for Alleged Fraud
A 55-year-old man who identified himself as an Islamic cleric, Sheu Adewoye, has been arraigned before an Osogbo Magistrate Court sitting in Osogbo for fraudulently obtaining the sum of N5 million from a bricklayer on the pretence to secure a contract for him from Abuja. The cleric was arraigned on two counts bordering on obtaining by…
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Court Sentences Two to Jail for Fraud
Two middle aged men, Rasak Olayinka Balogun and Ayodeji Oliwaseun Olatona have been sentenced to jail for internet fraud. The suspects, who were arraigned separately, pleaded guilty to the one count charge bothering on impersonation preferred against them. Rasak Olayinka Balogun was sentenced to seven months in jail by Justice Mohammed Abubakar of Federal High Court, Abeokuta. Aside…
