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Speaker 1: Federal High Court setting in Lego State, Nigeria, has ordered

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a graduate to pay the sum of two million neyers

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as option of fine, or he would spend two years

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imprisonment for disguising as if he was a popular Nigerian

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music star Chinado or calling Aka Level in April twenty

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twenty one and acted as a lober boy to defraud

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and American woman the sum of fifty three thousand dollars.

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The convect was arrested in June twenty twenty four by

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the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission EFCC after three years

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from the dead the crime was committed. As at April

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twenty twenty one, when the crime was committed, the exchange

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rate of a dollar to naira was four hundred and

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eighty two nayras. This likely the convet defrauded the victim

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about twenty five point five million miras. According to EFCAC,

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the convert has refunded seven point nine million miers. Letters

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of the report has presented by EFCAC Public Relations Unit

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via news release on Thursday. Raids below Justice the hinder

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I the Paelu of the Federal High Court sitting in Equali,

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Legos On Tuesday, September twenty twenty four, convicted and sentenced

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one Ipacer Courage to two years imprisonment for presenting himself

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as Chinadoclie also known as Flevo, a Nigerian singer, to

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do by a United States of America citizen, Missus Ebert M. Thompson,

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of the sum of fifty three thousand dollars. Courage, a

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graduate of philosophy, was arranged on Tuesday by the Legos

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Directorate of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission EFCAC on

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a two count charge bordering on cyber crimes and money laundering.

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Count one reads that year Ipacer Courage, sometime in April

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twenty twenty one, in Legos, within the jurisdiction of this

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Honorable Court, directly when a false statement wherein you held

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yourself out as a Nigerian and Tatenna by name Geneno

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COONIEK Flevo Nabagiel on your telegral account, knowing the same

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to be false and with intent that the representation is

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relied upon for the purpose of procuring the insuance of

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financial instrument to yourself and Blabah, committed an offense contrary

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to unpunishable under Section twenty two three of the Cybercrimes

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Prohibition Prevention et Cetera FCC to reveal the facts of

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the case. The defendant, Ekka said, was arrested in Legos

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on June tenth, twenty twenty four. He added, upon his

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arrest by operatives of the Legos Directorate, he volunteered his statement.

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In his statement, he confessed to have been involved in

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a Latins coum and that he used his platform to

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impersonate Snedi Oconi aka Flevon Darbagnier. He also confessed to

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having obtained the song of fifty three thousand dollars from

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one Missus Event m. Thompson, under the pretense that he

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perform on her birthday in Washington, DC in July twenty

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twenty one. The money was transferred through a Bitcoin wardant

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he created in order to receive the proceeds of crime.

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In his further review of the facts, Eppa said he

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also admitted to have fulged the Nigerian International passport data

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page of mister Chineduci aka Flewl Navagnier and also created

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a fictitious email address which he used to communicate with

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the victim. He had restituted the sum of seven miers

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nine hundred thousand by raising in manager’s check. Suleman thereafter

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applied to tender in evidence the defendant’s extra judicial statement

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and bank’s statement printed out of charts between him and

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the victim, as well as the bitcoin wordant statement from finance.

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Justice the Paoliu admitted them as exhibits. Counsel to the

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convict bio A Philip prend the two temper Justice with Messy,

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adding that he is the first time offriender and he

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did not waste the time of the court, my lord.

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He did not channel the process of his offense into

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living lavishly. Rather he used it to further his education

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and is now a graduate of philosophy. Consequently, Justice the

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Paolo convicted and sentenced the defendants to one year imprisonment

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on count one with an option or fine of one

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million mirs. He was also convicted and sentenced to one

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year imprisonment on count two with an option or fine

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of one million miers. The judge ordered that the money

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be forfeited to the petitular and also reminded the convict

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in the EFCC cost to depend in the fulfillment of

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the order within twenty one days. Courage’s journey to the

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correctional center began when he was arrested by operatives of

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the Legos Directorate of the EFCC for Internet fraud. He

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was charged to cause and convicted sas Waco Levi brigany

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you bring meed in a monagical way.