Posted by Samuel on Fri 26th Jan, 2024 - tori.ng
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission made this known in a statement on its X handle on Friday, January 26.
Justices A. Isiaka and A. A Bello of the Kaduna State High Court, sitting in Kaduna, have found Bilbert Sabo, Joy Righteous, Godwill Dikko, and Ransom Joash Destiny guilty of engaging in internet fraud and have subsequently pronounced convictions and sentences against them.
EFCC made this known in a statement on its X handle on Friday, January 26.
Part of the statement reads: "Justices A. Isiaka and A.A Bello of the Kaduna State High Court sitting in Kaduna has convicted and sentenced the quartet of Bilbert Sabo, Joy Righteous, Godwill Dikko and Ransom Joash Destiny to various jail terms for internet fraud.
"They were arrested and arraigned by the Kaduna Zonal Command of the EFCC on one-count separate charges bordering on internet fraud.
"While Sabo and Righteous were arraigned before Justice Isiaka, Dikko and Destiny were arraigned before Justice Bello
"The lone count against Sabo reads: “That you Bilbert Sabo (a.k.a Amelia Karim) sometime in December 2023 in Kaduna within the Kaduna Judicial Division of the High Court with intent to defraud, impersonated one Amelia Karim (a United States of America citizen) using your Facebook account, a social media platform and in such assumed character attempted to cheat unsuspecting foreigners when you knew you were not, and you thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 142(1) of the Kaduna State Penal Code Law, 2017 and punishable under the same law”.
"He pleaded guilty to the charge when it was read to him, prompting prosecution counsel, E.K Garba to urge the court to convict and sentence him accordingly.
"Justice Isiaka convicted and sentenced him to two years imprisonment or an option of fine of N150,000.00 (One Hundred and Fifty Thousand Naira). Apart from his prison term, he forfeited the tool of his crime, an iPhone 11 to the Federal government."