Anti-corruption and elections / EFCC

EFCC Secures Conviction of Internet Fraudster for $17, 000 Fraud

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Wednesday July 24, 2019, secured the conviction of one Asuquo Happiness, for an Internet fraud to the tune $17, 000 (seventeen Thousand United States Dollars), before Justice N. E Maha, of the Federal High Court, Abuja. Happiness was arrested in June 2019, at Gwarinpa Estate, a suburb of Abuja, following intelligence report with regards to his fraudulent internet activities. In his statement, he admitted to have fraudulently obtained the sum of $17,000, about N6, 012, 000 (Six Million Twelve Thousand Naira) only from one Jean Persall, an A…