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Speaker 1: Nigeria High Court sitting in Lagos State has convicted and

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ordered the deportation of twelve Philippines or Filipinos after the

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Federal High Court found them guilty of engaging in the

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act of cyber terrorism with intent to cause destruction to

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Nigeria economy, and another court in Lagos State has ordered

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the closure of a collective investment scheme firm CJC Markets

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Limited over the firm failure to register with the Securities

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and Exchange Commission SEC. Details of the reports as presented

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by the Public Relations Unit of the Economic and Financial

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Crimes Commission EFCC reads verbatim below. Court jails twelve Filipinos

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for cyber terrorism internet fraud in Lagos. Justice Jelenbogero of

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the Federal High Court sitting in Akoee, Lagos, on Friday

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May twenty third, twenty twenty five, convicted and sentenced twelve

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Filipinos to one year imprisonment each for cyber terrorism and

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internet fraud. The convict and Jeannette Topasio, Gladys Joi Mageba,

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Gene Caligo, Shirah may Rees, Roseanne Gonzales, Laurie Janetig, Mary

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Grace de la Cruz, Crystal Aquilesca, John Lanagalto pazer Kamara,

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Vivian Pianella and Johnolan Mendoza. They were arraigned on Friday

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by the Legos Sonal Directorate, one of the Economic and

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Financial Crimes Commission EFCC, on separate charges of possession of

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fraudulent documents. One of the count’s reads that you an

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Jeanette Topasio, sometime in December twenty twenty four in Lagos,

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within the jurisdiction of this Honorable Court, wilfully caused to

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be accessed computer systems organized to seriously destabilize and destroy

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the fundamental economic and social structure of Nigeria. When you

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procured employed Nigerian youths for identity theft and to hold

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themselves out as persons of foreign nationality with the intent

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to gain a financial advantage for yourselves, and you thereby

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committed an offense contrary to unpunishable under Section eighteen of

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the Cybercrimes Prohibition Prevention et Cetera Act, twenty fifteen as

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amended twenty twenty four and Section two three d of

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the Terrorism Prevention Prohibition Act twenty twenty two. Another charge

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reads that you Chirame Rees sometime in December twenty twenty

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four in Lagos, within the jurisdiction of this Honorable Court,

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had in your possession a document containing false pretense printed

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from your telegram wherein oposed to be a lady living

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in the UK, which representation you knew to be false.

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Thereby committed an offense contrary to Section six eight se

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of the Advance Fee Ford and Other Fraud Related Offenses Act,

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two thousand and six and punishable under section one three

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of the same Act. They all pleaded guilty to the

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charges when they were read to them. In view of

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their pleas, the Prosecution Council N. K Akoha and Hukofaniza

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respectively requested that the court convict the defendants has charged

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in accordance with the plea bargain they had entered into

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with the Commission. Justice Bogoro convicted and sentenced the defendants

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to one year imprisonment each with a fine of one

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million niras one million naira. The judge also ordered the

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Controller General of the Nigeria Immigration Serviceness, missus Kemi Nananandap,

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to ensure that the convicts are repatriated to their country

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of origin within seven days upon completion of their sentences.

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The devices recovered from the defendants were also ordered forfeited

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to the Federal Government of Nigeria. Court winds up a

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legal capital market firm in Lagos. Justice C. J and

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

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on Thursday May twenty second, twenty twenty five, ordered the

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winding up of a fraudulent collective investment scheme firm, CJC

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Markets Limited over failure to register with the Securities and

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Exchange Commission SEC. He gave the order following the arraignment

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of the company by the Lagos Ternal Directorate two of

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the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission EFCC on a one

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count charge bordering on investment fraud. On Thursday May twenty second,

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twenty twenty five, a petitioner alleged that CJC Markets Limited,

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sometime in January collected the sum of thirty million miras

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thirty million Mira from one wagmul Manga with the promise

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of a thirty percent return on investment. ROI investigation revealed

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that CJC Markets Limited is not registered with the Central

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Bank of Nigeria CBN or the Security and Exchange Commission

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SCC to carry out capital market operations or collect investments.

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The count reads that you CJC Markets Limited, being a

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company incorporated in Nigeria, Ihuachen at large and the Kumbeni

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Dixon at Large being the directors, respectively, sometime in twenty

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twenty one in Nigeria, within the judicial division of this

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Honorable Court, while carrying on your scheme of collective investment,

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failed to register with the Securities and Exchange Commission and

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thereby committed an offense contrary to Section fifty four one

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of the Investment and Securities Act two thousand and seven

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and punishable under section fifty four six of the same Act.

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A guilty plea was entered for the company. In view

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of this prosecution, Council Abdulah Midel Tecour called on Christian Chuku,

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an operative of the e FCC, to review the facts

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of the case. Chuku, in his testimony told the court

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that the Commission received a petition from Matthew Burkhar and

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County Legal Practitioners on behalf of the petitioner Mangna. He

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also told the court that the Commission, during investigations, subsequently

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wrote letters to the United Bank of Africa, uber the

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CBN and SEC and that they all responded. He added

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that the finance officer of the company, mister Coolawoley Josiah,

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volunteered his statement regarding the involvement of the company in

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the capital market. Thereafter, he identified the petition received the

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letters written by the Commission to the sec CBN and

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UBER as well as the statement from the finance officer

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of the company. Tacour then sought to tender in evidence

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the documents, which were all admitted and marked as exhibits

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by the court. The prosecution thereafter prayed the court to

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convict and sentence the company. Accordingly, counsel to the defendant

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had an e Commalaffe asked the court to wind up

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the said company. Justice and Eke convicted c JC Markets

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Limited as charged and laudered that it be wound up

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and delested from the Corporate Affairs Commission CAC. The company

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was wound up for running a fraudulent collective investment scheme

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firm CJC Markets Limited without registering with the Securities and

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Exchange Commission SECS. One lady bringing you bring in a

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mortgage way