Photos: EFCC arraigns Internet fraudster for £54,324 romance fraud

EFCC press statement below...
 

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Monday June 15, 2015, arraigned Ebiechina Chikeluba ( aka Lisa T. Jackson) before Justice O. A Ipaye of the High Court of Lagos State, Ikeja on a 17-count charge bordering on obtaining money by false pretence, personation, forgery and using false document. Chikeluba who met his victim on

Facebook using the false identity of, Lisa T. Jackson, a United States citizen, has been making monetary demands of his victims, using varies guises.

In one such example in March 2013, he acquired an aggregate entirety of £54,324.59 (Fifty Four Thousand, Three Hundred and Twenty Four Pounds, Fifty Nine Pence) from one K. Oaks through Western Union on the affection that he was an American lady managing in Gold in Nigeria and required cash to build her capital.

The clueless casualty paid, having officially consented to wed the conman. At the point when the charges were read to the respondent, he argued not liable. In perspective of the supplication of the denounced, arraignment counsel, Andrew Akoja requested a trial date and asked the court to remand the respondent in jail care. The guard counsel, Chijioke Agu educated the court that he has effectively recorded an application for safeguard and requested that be permitted to move his application.

In any case, Justice Ipaye deferred the matter to July 20, 2015 for knowing about safeguard application and requested that the litigant be remanded in care. Chikeluba, 21, an understudy of Federal Science and Technical College Yaba, Lagos was captured by the agents of the EFCC on February 24, 2015 for supposedly cheating Oake, a UK national, of the entirety of £54,000 (likeness N20m