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The Lagos State Special Offences Court has sentenced one Olaniyi Ogungbaiye to five years’ imprisonment for his involvement in N9.2m internet scam.
Ogungbaiye was arraigned by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on four counts bordering on conspiracy, obtaining money by false pretence, retaining stolen property and transfer of property derived from an illegal act before Justice Oluwatoyin Taiwo.
According to the EFCC, the commission received a petition sometime in 2018 from the Federal Bureau of Investigation requesting for an investigation into the activities of Ogungbaiye and his co-conspirators, Olarenwaju Osiefa and Daniel Ethan, in respect to a dating and business email compromise scam.
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A businessman, Kelechi Mbagwu, has been arraigned before the Lagos State Special Offences Court for N25m fraud.
Mbagwu was arraigned alongside his company, CMB Building Maintenance and Investment Limited, on three counts bordering on obtaining money under false pretences to the tune of N25m by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission.
The EFCC prosecutor, Abdullahi Mohammed, told the court that the defendant and his company committed the offences between February 12 and September 14, 2018, in Lagos.
According to the EFCC, Mbagwu and his company obtained the sum of N25m from one Okafor Sixtus under the pretext that the two residential plots of land in Pearl Garden Estate, Sangotedo, Lagos, given to Sixtus, were genuine.