Justice H.A. Nganjiwa of the Federal High Court, sitting in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, on Friday convicted Frank Emem and sentenced him to ten (10) years imprisonment for internet-related offenses.
The judge found
him guilty of 2-counts of obtaining money by false pretences brought
against him by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, and
sentenced him to 10 years imprisonment on each count, without an option
of fine The sentences are to run concurrently from the day of his
arrest( 6 March, 2013). The Judge also ordered him to pay the sum of Two
Million, Five Hundred Thousand Naira (N2,500,000) in restitution to
the victim.
Emem was arrested for defrauding a Chinese: Wang Xin of
Two Million, Five Hundred Thousand Naira (N2, 500, 000). The convict
cloned the e-mail account of Vhelbherg International Limited and sent
mails to Wang Xin, a client of the company, demanding for the said
sum.The money was then paid into the Diamond bank account of the
convict.
One of the count
reads, that you Frank Emeh and Peter Njoku (now at large) on or about
December 2012 in Port Harcourt within the jurisdiction of this
Honourable court did conspire among yourselves to commit felony to wit:
obtain money by false pretence from Sinopec Changjiang Engineering
Services Limited by using a false e-mail address trutobingsolutions@yahoo.co.uk to
communicate with him making him believe that you are one of his client
and thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 8 (a) of the
Advance Fee Fraud and Other Related Offences Act 2006 and punishable
under Section 1 (3) of the same Act.
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