COURT JAILS THREE FRAUDSTERS 12 YEARS IN SOKOTO
Justice Muhammad Sifawa of the Sokoto State High Court has convicted and sentenced three fraudsters: Joseph Moses, Raji Tijjani and Albert Chris Bulus, to twelve years imprisonment.
They were jailed after pleading guilty to one-count separate charges bordering on impersonation and obtaining under false pretence.
One of the charge reads, "That you, Albert Chris Bulus, male, sometime in 2023 in Sokoto within jurisdiction of this Honourable Court had in possession a document containing false information to wit: a Facebook account printout, wherein you held out yourself as John Williams, an information you knew to be false and you thereby committed an offence of possession of the fraudulent document, contrary to Section 6 and 5(1) of the Advance Fee Fraud and Other Fraud Related Offences Act, 2006 and punishable under Section 1(3) of the same Act.
The three defendants pleaded guilty to each of their charges.
In view of their guilty pleas, prosecution counsel, S.H Shehu prayed the court to convict and sentence them accordingly.
Justice Sifawa thereafter convicted and sentenced all three defendants to four years imprisonment each.
The convicts' journey to the Correctional Centre began when they were arrested by operatives of the Sokoto Command of the EFCC, for impersonating foreigners and defrauding their victims in the process. They were subsequently prosecuted and convicted.
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