Justice Ijeoma Ojukwu of the Federal High Court sitting Calabar, Cross River state has convicted and sentenced six internet fraudsters, for their involvement in various internet-related offences.
The convicts are: Ezenwadike Kingsley, Ugwuoke Keneth, Gabriel Ewa Jonah, Emmanuel Chukwunonso, Ettano Blessing and Obidiche Michael Ifeanyi.
They were jailed on Thursday, April 7, 2022 based on their “guilty” pleas to one-count separate charge preferred against them by the Uyo Zonal Command of the EFCC.
Ettano Blessing sometime in 2022, fraudulently presented himself as Dylan Espana and V Musa Wenkosi, an American Bitcoin manager, to his victims on Facebook and Instagram and obtained the sum of Seven Hundred Dollars ($700) from one Luzuko Mguda and Five Hundred Thousand Naira (N500,000) from his victims, an offence contrary to Section 22 (2) (b) (i) and (ii) of the Cybercrime (Prohibition, Prevention, etc) Act 2015 and punishable under Section 22 (b) (iv) of the same Act.
Based on their pleas, prosecution counsel, Joshua Abolarin, prayed the court to convict them accordingly.
