Photograph: EFCC summons previous EFCC Chairman, Ibrahim Lamorde's impersonator
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has summoned one Promise Tochi Nwalozie a. k. an Ibrahim Lamorde and Ohaji Ujunwa Raymond, before Justice H. I. O Oshomah of the
Federal High Court, sitting in Port Harcourt, Rivers State on a 9-tally charge verging on intrigue and getting cash by false nearness to the tune of $1,330.00 (USD).
Guarantee Tochi Nwalozie, a presumed impersonator acting like the previous Executive Chairman of the EFCC, Ibrahim Lamorde, was captured at Rumuagholu, Port Harcourt, Rivers State on 6 August, 2016, by agents of the EFCC, in a sting operation that yielded the capture of six other web fraudsters. Nwalozie was utilizing the character of Lamorde to send trick sends to outsiders, for the most part Europeans and Americans and all the while, blackmailed sizeable measure of remote monetary standards from them. His weapon of fake connection with his casualties was a fake electronic duplicate of the character card of the previous EFCC's supervisor. He similarly accepted another name, Gabriel Giese, to utilize his odious exercises. This is notwithstanding acting like Barrister Peter Jackson, a spurious legal counselor working with the National Judicial Council, NJC in Nigeria. As a "legal counselor", he was duping his casualties by guaranteeing them that he would help in the recuperation of cash lost to various Nigerian digital fraudsters. To do this, Jackson was gathering different totals of cash as administration charges from his casualties. Some of his casualties are: Betty. G. E, an American and Georgina M, an Australian. Raymond was one of his accomplices in wrongdoing. Six other presumed fraudsters captured with Nwalozie have been charged independently.
Number one of the charge read: ''that you Promise Tochi Nwalozie (a. k. a) Barrister Peter Jackson, Gebriel Giese, Ibrahim Lamorde and Ohaji Ujunwa Raymond some of the time in July, 2016, at Port Harcourt, Rivers State, inside the locale of this Honorable Court conspired among yourselves to submit crime to mind: Obtaining Money by False Pretense and accordingly carried out an offense in opposition to Section 8 (an) and culpable under Section 1 (3) of the of the Advance Fee Fraud and Other Fraud Related Offenses Act, 2006.
Another check read: ''that you Promise Tochi Nwalozie (a. k. a) Barrister Peter Jackson, Gebriel Giese, Ibrahim Lamorde, approximately the sixth August, 2016, at Port Harcourt, Rivers State, inside the ward of this Honorable Court, with plan to swindle, obtained the total of $500.00 (USD) from one Georgina Master, an Australian under the falsification that the said aggregate shaped part installment for the repatriation of her assets which she lost to fraudsters in Nigeria, which affection you knew to be false, and along these lines conferred an offense in spite of Section (1) (an) of the Advance Fee Fraud and Other Fraud Related Offenses Act, 2006 and culpable under Section 1 (3) of the said Act.
The respondents argued not liable to the charges when they were perused to them.
In perspective of their supplications, arraignment advise, Mustapha Tanko Iko requested that the court settle a date for the initiation of trial and that the litigants be remanded in jail guardianship. Be that as it may, guidance to the two respondents, P. O. K. Osuji, told the court that he had documented safeguard applications for his customers and served same on the arraignment. He encouraged the court to concede his supplications. Iko recognized the applications and did not restrict them.
Equity Oshomah dismissed the case to 6 July, 2017 for safeguard hearing and requested that the respondents be remanded in jail authority pending the assurance of their safeguard
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