Anti-corruption and elections / EFCC

Businessman Bags Five Years for N12. 4m Fraud, another Bags One Month

Justice Chudi Nwankwor of an Anambra State High Court, sitting in Ogidi, has sentenced a 39-year-old businessman, Ugwunwa Ikenna Stanislaus, to five years in prison without an option of fine for offences bordering on advance fee fraud. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC South-East Zonal Office had brought him before the trial judge, on a six-count charge bordering on forgery, uttering and obtaining by false pretence. He was alleged to have sometimes in 2011 presented himself as a representative of a Chinese company that deals in vehicle spare parts, and obtained the sum of N12.…