Gombe court jails two fraudsters
Justice
Gombe court jails two fraudsters
Abdullateef Fowewe
The Gombe State High Court has officially convicted and sentenced two fraudsters to two years in prison for their involvement in fraudulent activities.
Economic and Financial Crimes Commission in a statement on Friday, August 2, stated that Vanna Henry Nguna and Morgak Peter were prosecuted on one-count separate charges of personation by the Gombe Zonal Directorate of the EFCC.
The charges against Vanna Henry Nguna reads, “That you Vanna Henry Nguna sometime between January and February 2024 at Gombe, Gombe State within the jurisdiction of this honourable court dishonestly impersonate a female American national by operating a fake account (Emily Enoch) and a fake Gmail account (emily00795@gmail.com) and by using the same to defraud unsuspecting individuals mostly men, and foreign nationals and thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 321 and punishable under Section 324 of the Penal Code Law.”
While the charge against Morgak Peter according to the statement reads, “That you Morgak Peter sometimes between January and February 2024 at Gombe, Gombe State within the jurisdiction of this honourable court dishonestly impersonate some foreign nationals by pretending to be an online gamer and vendor operating a fake Facebook account (help zone crisis Ty and TJ field) and Instagram account (nunji-000) and in the process gained to your advantage the sum of N40,000 and thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 321 and punishable under Section 324 of the penal code Law.”
“However, counsel to the defendants, Jimoh.K and Yusuf. Ali pleaded with the court to temper justice with mercy as the defendants were first-time offenders who were remorseful of their actions.
“Justice Yakubu convicted and sentenced Nguna and Peter to two years imprisonment or a fine of N40,000 (Forty Thousand Naira) each. In addition, Peter restituted the sum of N40,000 to the victim of the crime and the Samsung phones recovered from the two convicts in the course of the investigation, being instruments of crime, were forfeited to the Federal Government of Nigeria.”
Dailyeconomy on Thursday, August 1, reported that the EFCC Gombe Zonal Directorate prosecuted two before Justice A. Muazu of the Bauchi State High Court sitting in Bauchi over land fraud.
