Find the EFCC press statement below...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Monday June 15,
2015, arraigned Ebiechina Chikeluba ( aka Lisa T. Jackson) before
Justice O. A Ipaye of the High Court of Lagos State, Ikeja on a
17-count charge bordering on obtaining money by false pretence,
personation, forgery and using false document.
Chikeluba who met his victim on Facebook using the false identity of,
Lisa T. Jackson, a United States citizen, has been making monetary
demands of his victims, using varies guises.
In one such instance in March 2013, he obtained a total sum of
£54,324.59 (Fifty Four Thousand, Three Hundred and Twenty Four Pounds,
Fifty Nine Pence) from one K. Oaks through Western Union on the pretext
that he was an American woman dealing in Gold in Nigeria and needed
money to increase her capital.
The unsuspecting victim paid, having already agreed to marry the conman.
When the charges were read to the defendant, he pleaded not guilty.
In view of the plea of the accused, prosecution counsel, Andrew Akoja
asked for a trial date and prayed the court to remand the defendant in
prison custody.
The defence counsel, Chijioke Agu informed the court that he has already
filed an application for bail and asked to be allowed to move his
application.
However, Justice Ipaye adjourned the matter to July 20, 2015 for
hearing of bail application and ordered that the defendant be remanded
in custody.
Chikeluba, 21, a student of Federal Science and Technical College Yaba,
Lagos was arrested by the operatives of the EFCC on February 24, 2015
for allegedly swindling Oake, a UK citizen, of the sum of £54,000
(equivalent of N20m).
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