Court jails Internet fraudster for attempting to dupe Australian of $800,000
Justice Kudirat Jose of the Lagos High Court in Ikeja has convicted and
sentenced a head of an Internet fraud syndicate, Promise Ekemini to one year imprisonment, for attempting
to sell the property of an Australian valued at $800,000.
Ekemini was said to have hacked the
e-mail of his target victim, Brian Daniel, and offered his property on
Western Australia for sale on the internet.
The police in Austrialia were said to
have alerted officials of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission,
who later arrested him.
The convict was arraigned by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission ( EFCC ) in April,
2014 on five counts of conspiracy to defraud, attempt to
obtain money by false pretences and forgery.
Justice Jose found him guilty of all the charges and convicted him.
His sentence is to run from the day of his arraignment.
According to the EFCC Ekemini got
into trouble by impersonating Brian Daniel, the owner of a property
located at No. 143, Sprinaway Parade, Falcon, Western Australia and
offering his property to buyers on the internet without the consent of
the owner.
“The Australian Police alerted the EFCC
to monitor a controlled delivery of some documents related to the
transactions to Ekemini. He was arrested at the point of collection of
the documents.”
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