The Lagos Zonal Directorate of the Economic and
Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Thursday, February 20, 2025
arraigned additional 18 Chinese before Justice Daniel Osiagor of
the Federal High Court, sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos.
They are: Huang Bo, Xiong Zhen, Lai Rui Feng, Deng Wei
Qiang, Fu Min, Qin Xiao Yong, Li Dong, Li De Wen, Luo Mao Yang, Zhao Xiao Hui,
Du Ji Feng, Liu Hai Rong, Liu Ni Ni, Liu Gang, Sun Qi, Zhang Jian, Peng Fa li
and Huo Wen Jie.
They are among the 792-member cryptocurrency
investment and romance fraud suspects arrested on December 10, 2024, in Lagos,
in a sting operation tagged "Eagle Flush Operation" by EFCC
operatives.
The suspects were arraigned on separate
charges, bordering on cybercrimes, cyber-terrorism, possession of
documents containing false pretence and identity theft.
One of the charges reads: “That you Huang Bo, Xiong
Zhen, Lai Rui Feng, Genting International Co. Ltd and A. Dao (at large)
sometime in December 2024, in Lagos, within the jurisdiction of this Honorable
Court conspired with yourselves to commit an offence to wit: cause to be
accessed, computer systems for the purpose of destabilising and destroying the
economic and social structure of Nigeria and thereby committed an offence
contrary to Section 27 (1) (b) and punishable under Section 18 (1) of the Cybercrimes
(Prohibition, Prevention, Etc) Act, 2015."
They all pleaded “not guilty” to the charges when they
were read to them, following which prosecution counsel, Nnaemeka
Omewa, asked the court for a trial date and for the
defendants to be remanded in the appropriate correctional center.
Justice Osiagor adjourned the matter till May 5, 2025
for trial, and ordered that they be remanded at the correctional custodial
center.
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