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Speaker 1: Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, State of Nigeria, has

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found guilty fifteen Chinese citizens, two Philippines and one Pakistan

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national for cyber terrorism. Hence, the court sentenced them to

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one year imprisonment and ordered the Nigeria Immigration Service to

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facilitate the deportation of the convicts immediately after they completed

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the various jail term details of the reporters presented by

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the Public Relations Unit of the Economic and Financial Crimes

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Commission EFC SA reads verbat and below. Court jail’s fifteen Chinese,

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two Filipinos, one Pakistani for cyber terrorism internet fraud in Lagos.

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The Lagos Sonal Directorate one of the Economic and Financial

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Crimes Commission EFCC, on Thursday June nineteenth and Friday June twentieth,

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twenty twenty five secured the conviction and sentence of fifteen Chinese,

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two Filipinos and one Pakistani for cyber terrorism and Internet

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fraud before Justices Chukuju kueneke Hiokunley Faji and Yelem Bogero

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of the Federal High Court sitting in Akoi, Lagos. The

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suspects A Peng Li huin Jiang Jinrong Hi Kun Richelle, Kabalona,

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Caslan Pianella, Guolong Loong Jiang Hua, Jai Linhubo, chen Fu, Sheng,

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Chen Dong Dong Wang Goong Lin, Pan Kaiyu, huang Renjian Jiang, SiO,

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Lay Curran, Shazad, Chen Yun, Wu Yong and and Chen Sin.

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The suspects were arraigned on separate charges bordering on cyber

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terrorism and Internet fraud. One of the charges reads that

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U Caslan Pianella, 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 three left and to

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hold themselves out as persons of foreign nationality with the

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intent to gain 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 Cyber Crimes Prohibition Prevention et Cetera Act twenty fifteen

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as amended twenty twenty four and Section two three D

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of the Terrorism Prevention Prohibition Act twenty twenty two. They

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all pleaded guilty to the charges when they were read

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to them. In view of their please, the Prosecution Council

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Spirfa Wedde, Bilkasu Buhari, Bala chenenye Okeesi Ebuka Akongu b

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m I Sir. And Landam Mutfying respectively prayed the court

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to convict the defendants and also order the forfeiture all

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the exhibits recovered from them. The judges found them guilty

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of the charges and convicted them accordingly. All the convicts

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were sentenced to one year imprisonment with a fine of

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one million narers one million naira. The judge also ordered

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that upon completion of their sentences, the Controller General of

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the Nigeria Immigration Service NIS should ensure that they are

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repatriated to their country of origin within seven days. The

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judge also ordered that the items recovered from them be

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forfeited to the Federal Government of Nigeria. The convicts are

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among the seven hundred and ninety two suspects arrested by

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operatives of the EFCC for alleged cyber terrorism. They were

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charged to court and jailed. EFCC Arraign’s Fake Bureau de

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Chanche operator in Lagos. The Lagos Sonal Directorate two of

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the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission EFCC, on Wednesday, June eighteenth,

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twenty twenty five, arraigned one Abdul Karamaualu before Justice Ao

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Olawi of the Federal High Court sitting in Akoi, Lagos.

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Awalu was arraigned on a six count charge bordering on

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operating bureau de change business without an appropriate life license

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by the Central Bank of Nigeria CBN. The petitioner alleged

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that he was approached by some unknown persons on the

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phone with a business proposal for investments in the defendant’s

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business and other related businesses in Nigeria. The proposal allegedly

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involved the injection of about ten million dollars ten million

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USD dollars into the defendant science and hospital equipment business.

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It was also alleged that in the course of facilitating

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the transmission of the boxes containing the ten thousand dollars

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zero hundred ten million us D dollars, the purported agents

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of the defendant kept presenting demand notices for the payment

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of various amounts of money from the nominal complainant under

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the guise of meeting statutory charges for the clearance of

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the said boxes containing the money to his Carno office address.

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Investigation revealed that Aulou made cash payments rather than using

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a financial institution. One of the count’s reads that you,

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Abdul Karamaulu, some time within January and April twenty twenty

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

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without accompany duly incorporated in Nigeria, failed to obtain a

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valid license from the Central Bank of Nigeria to carry

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on your business of Bureau de chanch and you thereby

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committed an offense contrary to Section fifty seven of the

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Banks and Other Financial Institutions Act twenty twenty and punishable

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under sections fifty seven five of the same Act. He

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pleaded not guilty to the charge preferred against him. In

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view of this, the Prosecution Council A. A. Busmann asked

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the court for a trial date and also prayed for

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the remand of the defendant in a correctional center. The

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defense Council, Abdalkadir Wodi, however, informed the court of appending

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bail application which he sought to move. Responding, Gusmann told

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the court that he had not received the bail application.

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He was thereafter served in the open court. Justice Oloi

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remanded the defendant in the Correctional Center and adjourned till

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July first, twenty twenty five for the hearing of the

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veil application. Possasuara Lady bringin u Brgni in a mortgagical

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way