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Speaker 1: Nigeria Anti Corruption Police. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission

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EFCC has arrested a sixty three years old man, Anesto Chukudumchukukamma,

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who allegedly presented himself as a journalist working with the

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EFCC to defraud an unsuspecting victim a sum of two

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million Nira with the pretense to help discontinue the investigation

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of four point five billion dollars fraud in the Nigeria

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Petroleum Trust Fund PTF. Details of this report and other

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news is made available by the Public Relations Department of

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the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission EFCC reads verbatim below.

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EFCC arrests fake journalist for claiming to stop investigation of

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alleged four point five billion dollars PTF fraud. The Economic

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and Financial Crimes Commission EFCC has arrested a fake journalist,

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an Esto Chukudumchukukamma, for alleged extortion, impersonation and obtaining two

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million iras two million Nira under false pretense to influence

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the investigation of the sum of four billion, five hundred

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million dollars four billion, five hundred million United States dollars

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alleged Petroleum Trust Fund PTF fraud. Choku Kama, sixty three

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was arrested for allegedly threatening the life of a petitioner

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and receiving financial inducement from him to stop the investigation

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of four billion, five hundred million dollars alleged Petroleum Trust

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Fund PTF fraud. The suspect allegedly presented himself to the

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petitioner as a journalist attached to the EFCC. He also

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allegedly informed the petitioner that other journalists who are members

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of a correspondence chapel attached to the commission had a

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report of how he stole the sum of four billion,

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five hundred million dollars point zero. In the process of

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winding up the activities of the Petroleum Trust Fund investigation

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revealed that the suspect had already received the sum of

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two million niras two million naira from the petitioner and

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was arrested while attempting to withdraw the funds. He will

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be charged to court upon conclusion of investigation. Lagos Court

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jails eight Filipinos for cyber terrorism internet fraud. Justice Alexander

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Omowai of the Federal High Court sitting in Akoi, Lagos,

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on Tuesday, May twenty seventh, twenty twenty five, convicted and

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sentenced eight Filipinos to one year imprisonment each for cyber

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terrorism and Internet fraud. The convictor Bevelen Casino, May Arabel,

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Mary Gray, Stealer Cruz, Jamal Poley, Tricia Castro, Raichamara Cherryder

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Leon and Danika Jarapan. They were arraigned on Tuesday by

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the Lagos Sonal Directorate, one of the Economic and Financial

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Crimes Commission EFCC, on separate charges of possession of fraudulent documents.

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One of the count’s reads that you Bevelen Casino, sometime

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in December twenty twenty four in Lagos, within the jurisdiction

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of this Honorable Court, wilfully caused to be accessed computer

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systems organized to seriously destabilize and destroy the fundamental economic

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and social structure of Nigeria. When you procured employed Nigerian

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youths for identity theft and to hold themselves out as

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persons of foreign nationality with the intent to gain a

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financial advantage for yourselves, and you thereby committed an offense

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contrary to unpunishable under Section eighteen of the Cyber Crimes

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Prohibition Prevention et Cetera Act twenty fifteen as amended twenty

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twenty four and Section two three D of the Terrorism

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Prevention Prohibition Act twenty twenty two. They all pleaded guilty

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to the charges when they were read to them. In

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view of their pleas, the Prosecution Council, enk Akoha, prayed

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the court to convict the defendants as charged. Justice hollow

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I convicted and sentenced them defendants to one year imprisonment

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each with a fine of one million niras one million naira.

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The judge also ordered the Controller General of the Nigeria

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Immigration Service NESS to ensure that the convicts are repatriated

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to their country of origin within seven days upon completion

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of their sentences. The devices recovered from the defendants were

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also ordered forfeited to the Federal Government of Nigeria. The

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convict’s journey to the correctional center began when they were

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arrested by operatives of the EFCC for cyber terrorism and

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Internet fraud. They are among the seven hundred and ninety

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two suspects rounded up in December twenty twenty four in

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Victoria Island, Lagos. They were charged to court and jailed.

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EFCC arraigns manned for alleged twenty three point five million

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niras vis a scam in Lagos. The Lagos Nal Directorate,

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one of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission EFCC, on Tuesday,

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June third, twenty twenty five, arraigned one on Woollhem Chimes

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Felix on an eleven count charge bordering on obtaining money

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by false pretense, stealing, possession of fraudulent documents and forgery

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to the tune of twenty three million, five hundred thousand,

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two hundred and eighty niners twenty three million, five hundred

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narra two hundred and eighty cobo before Justice Mojasola Dardar

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of the Special Offenses Court, sitting in a kejer Legos.

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Chimes allegedly promised to help the petitioner obtain a United

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Kingdom visa work permit as well as a certificate of

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sponsorship to travel abroad. He however, allegedly renamed on his

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promise after collecting money from the petitioner one of the

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count’s reads, a Wilhemchemezi Felix, trading under the name and

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style of Slenzy Ventures. Sometime in twenty twenty four at Lagos,

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within the jurisdiction of this Honorable Court, with intent to defraud,

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obtained the summer of eighteen million, thirty eight thousandniras eighteen million,

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thirty eight thousand Nira only from Nikiri Chi edosy Boniface,

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by falsely representing that the money was for procuring the

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United Kingdom visa and work permit, a representation you knew

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to be false. Another count reads that you a Woolen

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Chimes Felix Honor, about the tenth of March twenty twenty five,

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at Lagos, within the jurisdiction of this honorable Court, with

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intent to a fraud, had in your possession several fraudulent documents,

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one of which is a forged Florida driver’s license with

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the name Voitiseekhadredder, which he presented to unsuspecting victims a

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representation you knew to be false. He pleaded not guilty

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to the charges when they were read to him. In

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view of this prosecution Council M B. Eischer prayed for

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a trial date and also urged the court to remand

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the defendant at a correctional center pending his trial date.

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The defense Council, Michael o in Wigbow, however, informed the

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court of a pending application for bail for his client,

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and also prayed for a short date for the hearing. Consequently,

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Justice Dardar adjourned the matter till June seventeenth, twenty twenty five,

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for the commencement of trial, and also ordered the custodial

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remand of the defendant pending his trial. Another count reads

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that you A Woolen Chimes Felix Honor, about the tenth

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of March twenty twenty five, at Lagos, within the jurisdiction

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of this honorable Court, with intent to fraud, had in

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your possession several fraudulent documents, one of which is a

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forged Florida driver’s license with the name Voiti Sekhadrina, which

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he presented to unsuspecting victims, a representation you knew to

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be false. He pleaded not guilty to the charges when

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they were read to him. In view of this prosecution

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Council M B. Eischer prayed for a trial date and

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also urged the court to remand the defendant at a

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correctional center pending his trie trial date. The defense Council,

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Michael o in Wigbow, however, informed the court of a

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pending application for bail for his client, and also prayed

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for a short date for the hearing. Consequently, Justice Data

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adjourned the matter till June seventeenth, twenty twenty five, for

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the commencement of trial and also ordered the custodial remand

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of the defendant pending his trial. Possasuoledi gwgdi Bringi in

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a mogical way