Internet fraudster bags six months in jail for £18,500 fraud

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Benin Zonal Office, has verified the conviction of Eric Ogbemudia at the Federal High Court sitting in Benin City, Edo State.

An announcement from the organization says that Ogbemudia was summoned on a one-tally charge of getting the aggregate of Eighteen Thousand Five Hundred Pounds Sterling by falsification.

The charge peruses:

"That you, Eric Ogbemudia (nom de plume David Mark) approximately the seventeenth August 2015, in Benin inside the purview of this good court did with plan to cheat acquired the aggregate of £18,500.00 (Eighteen Thousand Five Hundred Pounds Sterling) from Mrs. Joan Gallyot, a British national under the affectation that she is one of the fortunate champs of $852,000.00 (Eight hundred and Fifty-Two Thousand Dollars) Chevron/Texaco gift under its destitution decrease program and that the cash was for conveyance charges of the check to her in the United Kingdom which you knew is false and in this manner submitted an offense in opposition to Section 1(1) b of the Advance Fee Fraud and other Fraud Related offenses Act 2006 and culpable under Section 1(3) of a similar Act."

Upon his arraignment, the litigant argued "liable" to the charge.

In perspective on his supplication, the indicting counsel, Immaculate Elody, asked the court to convict and sentence the respondent, as needs be.

In any case, the resistance counsel, I.E. Oriazuwale, begged the court to temper equity with benevolence. He said the respondent had appeared and had guaranteed never to come back to the wrongdoing.

Equity M.J. Umar, from that point, indicted and condemned Ogbemudia to a half year detainment without a choice of fine. The judge likewise requested that all advantages recouped from the litigant be arranged with the returns transmitted to the British High Commission for forward transmission to the casualty of the wrongdoing.