Court Convicts ATM Fraudster

The Makurdi Zonal Office of the EFCC, has verified the conviction of one Ikechukwu Sunday Onovo, an ATM fraudster.

An announcement from the antigraft organization says the Commission had captured, examined and taken Onovo before Justice Mobolaji Olajuwon sitting at Federal High Court Makurdi, Benue State.

Following a supplication deal course of action among him and the Commission, he was re-summoned on a one-check altered charge that supplanted the underlying charge against him.

The tally peruses:

"That you, Ikechukwu Sunday Onovo, approximately the nineteenth day of April, 2019 at Makurdi, in the Makurdi legal Division of the Federal High Court stole an electronic card indeed: A Union Bank Debit Card issued for the sake of Mukhtar Ali and pulled back the entirety of N390,000.00 from the said record and in this way carried out an offense culpable under Section 33(3) of the Cybercrime (preclusion counteractive action Etc.) Act, 2015."

He argued "liable" to the charge.

In perspective on his request, the arraigning counsel, Mary Onoja, asked the Court to acknowledge the supplication deal and convict him as needs be.

Equity Olajuwon articulated him liable on May 24, 2019 and along these lines indicted him, requesting him to pay a fine of N500,000 (Five Hundred Thousand Naira) to the Federal Government of Nigeria.

The convict likewise restored the aggregate whole of N390,000 (Three Hundred and Ninety Thousand Naira) as compensation to the person in question.

The Court likewise requested that he relinquishes his Peugeot 406 with enrollment Number Kano AR163FGE, and Chassis Number 845780 to the Federal Government as continues of wrongdoing. He was additionally remanded in jail pending the installment of his fine.

Agents of the EFCC had captured him on May 2, 2019 at First Bank Plc premises Otukpo, Benue State following examinations concerning his contribution in ATM extortion.