The Lagos Zonal Directorate of the Economic and
Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Friday, February 14, 2025, arraigned
11 more Chinese and a company, Genting International Co. Ltd, before
Justice Chukwujekwu Aneke of the Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi,
Lagos for fraud.
The defendants are: Li Niu, Xiao Qinyun, Fu Zheng
Yang, Xiao Yi, Bei Bei Linde Jun, Li Hang, Huan Livo, Wang Wei Tong Mo Ying,
Gao Yang, Zebin Chen and Yuan Zhibin.
They are part of the 792-member syndicate of
alleged cryptocurrency investment and romance fraud suspects arrested in
Lagos on December 10, 2024 by officers of the EFCC in a surprise
operation tagged “Eagle Flush Operation.”
The suspects were arraigned on separate charges
bordering on cyber-terrorism, cybercrimes, possession of documents
containing false pretence, advance fee fraud and identity theft.
The charge against Jun reads: “That you, BEI BEI
LINDE JUN, (Female), adult and GENTING INTERNATIONAL CO. LIMITED sometime
between the 28th of November, 2024 and 10th of December, 2024. at No. 7, Oyin Jolayemi Street, Victoria Island, Ikoyi, Lagos,
within the Jurisdiction of the Federal High Court of Nigeria with intent to
defraud, willfully caused to be accessed, computer systems which were organized
to destabilize the social and economic structure of the Federal Republic of
Nigeria, when you secretly procured and employed several Nigerian youths for
identity theft and other computer related fraud, and you thereby committed an
offence, contrary to and punishable under Section 18 of the Cybercrimes
(Prohibition, Prevention, Etc.,) Act, Laws of the Federation of Nigeria, 2015
(As amended)."
Niu’s charge reads: "That you, LI NIU
sometimes in 2024 at Lagos within the jurisdiction of this Honourabe Court, had
in your possession documents where you represented yourself as "LISA' and
that you are a female from Singapore, a representation which you knew or ought
to have known is false and you thereby committed and offence contrary to
Section 6 of the Advance Fee Fraud and Other Fraud Related Offences Act, 2006
and punishable under section 1 (3) of the same Act."
They all pleaded “not guilty” to the charges when they
were read to them, following which prosecution counsel, Ahmed Yerima, F.S.
Mohammed, A.M. Dambuwq and N.C. Mutfwang asked the court for a trial
date and for the defendants to be remanded
in a Correctional Centre.
Justice Aneke adjourned the matter till March 14 and
21, 2025 for trial, and ordered that the defendants
be remanded in the Ikoyi and
Kirikiri Correctional Centres.
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