A 23-year-old Abuja man, Eyang Bethel Eyam has been jailed for six months for fraud, the Abuja zonal command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) said in a statement on Wednesday.
According to the statement, Mr Eyang Bethel Eyam was on Tuesday sentenced to six months by Justice C.O. Agashieze of the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory, Kwali, on a one-count charge bordering on internet fraud.
“Eyam sometime in 2022 at Abuja did cheat by impersonation when he presented himself to two Chinese women using the profile names ‘Chen’, ‘Chengi’ and ‘Ziang’ on WECHAT and INSTAGRAM online apps and obtained the sums of 8,000 and 50000 Yauns, where you benefited the sum of Six Hundred Thousand Naira (N600,000) which was paid into your Zenith Bank account number 2253820008, a fact you know to be false and you thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 321 of the Penal Code Act, Laws of the Federation (Abuja), 1990 and punishable under Section 324 of the same Law,” the court had stated.
The defendant pleaded guilty to the charge and was convicted and sentenced by Justice Agashieze to six months in prison without an option of a fine. He is also to forfeit his phone and the financial proceeds of his crime (N600,000) to the Federal Government.