KADUNA COURT JAILS INTERNET FRAUDSTER, COMPANY
By Olayiwola Ibrahim // Justice Darius Khobo of the Kaduna State High Court sitting in Kaduna has convicted and sentenced one John Yakubu to three years imprisonment for internet fraud.
He was jailed on Friday, February 23, 2024 after pleading guilty to one-count charge bordering on internet fraud
upon being arraigned by the Kaduna Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC.
The one count charge reads, that you John Yakubu sometimes in December, 2022 in Kaduna within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court, with intent to defraud falsely presented yourself as Frederick Hansen a medical doctor from Sweden via Facebook chat an online social media application to one Bergstrom Berit and in such assumed character benefitted the total sum of $750 USD and thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 308 of the Kaduna State Penal Code Law, 2017 and punishable under Se
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