EFCC
Press Release
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Monday, March 23, 2015 arraigned one Nwakanma C. Chukwudi before Justice D.V Agishir of the Federal High Court sitting in Enugu on a 12-count charge bordering on cyber crime, obtaining money by false pretence and impersonation.
The 30-year-old suspect, who claimed to
be a “British national” named Barry Bernard, is being prosecuted for duping one
Donnalynn, a Canadian, whom he met on a dating site.
In the course of their
romantic affair, Chukwudi, who also claimed to be resident in Manchester, United Kingdom,
had sent several love mails and pictures to Donnalynn.
Consequently,
Donnalynn did not have any course to doubt him when he requested for $26,520 Canadian dollars from
her, having been communicating with him over a period of time.
However, when she later
found out that she had been duped, she petitioned the EFCC.
One of the charges reads:
‘‘That you Nwakanma C. Chukwudi (alias Barry Bernard) on or about the 10th day
of June, 2014 in Enugu, within the jurisdiction of the Federal High Court of
Nigeria with intent to defraud had in your possession (email box- barrybernard777@yahoo.com),
a document containing a picture in which you represented yourself as a white
man by name Barry Bernard, a pretence you knew to be false and thereby committed
an offence contrary to Sections 6 and 8 (b) of the Advance Fee Fraud and Other
Fraud Related Offences Act, 2006 and punishable under Section 1 (3) of the same
Act.’’
However, the accused person
pleaded not guilty to the 12- count charge.
Justice
Agishir adjourned the matter to April 7, 2015 for consideration of the bail
application and ordered the accused to be remanded in prison custody.
Wilson Uwujaren
Head, Media &
Publicity
24th March,
2015
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