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EFCC Arrest Onwuzuruike Ikenna Alleged Internet Fraud Kingpin For $8.5m U.S Bank Scam

EFCC Arrest Onwuzuruike Ikenna Alleged Internet Fraud Kingpin For $8.5m U.S Bank Scam

 

 

Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arraigned an alleged internet fraud kingpin, Onwuzuruike Ikenna, for $8.5m scam.

In a statement, the EFCC wrote;

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC Port Harcourt’s zonal office on Tuesday, June 30, 2020 arraigned one Onwuzuruike Ikenna Kingsley (aka Jeff Sikora), a self-styled President/ Chief Executive Officer of United States-based Prime Trust Credit Union Bank before Justice A.T. Mohammed of the Federal High Court sitting in Port Harcourt, Rivers State on an eight count charge bordering on conspiracy, impersonation, forgery, possession of proceeds and obtaining money by false pretence to the tune of Eight Million, Five Hundred and Two Thousand Dollars ($8,502,000.00).

The offence contravenes Section 1 (1) (a) of the Advance Fee Fraud and Other Fraud Related Offences Act, 2006 and punishable under Section 1 (3) of the same Act.
For details of this and other stories, visit our website at www.efccnigeria.org

Angela Davies

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