00:00Nigeria Anti-Corruption Police, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC has arrested a 63-years-old man, Ernesto Chukudum Chukukama who allegedly presented himself as a journalist working with the EFCC to defraud an unsuspecting victim a sum of 2 million naira with the pretense to help discontinue the investigation of $4.5 billion fraud in the Nigeria Petroleum Trust Fund, PTF.
00:27Details of this report and other news is made available by the Public Relations Department of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC reads verbatim below.
00:39EFCC arrests fake journalist for claiming to stop investigation of alleged $4.5 billion PTF fraud.
00:47The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has arrested a fake journalist, Ernesto Chukudum Chukukama for alleged extortion, impersonation and obtaining 2 million nairas, 2 million naira, under false pretense to influence the investigation of the sum of $4.500.000.000, $4.500.000.000 United States Dollars, alleged Petroleum Trust Fund, PTF fraud.
01:15Chukukukama, 63, was arrested for allegedly threatening the life of a petitioner and receiving financial inducement from him to stop the investigation of $4.500.000.000, alleged Petroleum Trust Fund, PTF fraud.
01:30The suspect allegedly presented himself to the petitioner as a journalist attached to the EFCC.
01:38He also allegedly informed the petitioner that other journalists who are members of a correspondence chattel attached to the commission had a report of how he stole the sum of $4.500.000.000, in the process of winding up the activities of the Petroleum Trust Fund.
01:54Investigation revealed that the suspect had already received the sum of 2 million nairas, 2 million naira, from the petitioner and was arrested while attempting to withdraw the funds.
02:06He will be charged to court upon conclusion of investigation.
02:09Lagos court jails 8 Filipinos for cyber-terrorism, internet fraud.
02:15Justice Alexander Owai of the Federal High Court sitting in Akoyi, Lagos, on Tuesday, May 27, 2025, convicted and sentenced 8 Filipinos to 1 year imprisonment each for cyber-terrorism and internet fraud.
02:29The convicts are, Bevelin Casino, Mayerable, Mary Grace de la Cruz, Jamal Pelley, Tricia Castro, Raikamara, Cherry de Leon and Danica Jarrapan.
02:42They were arraigned on Tuesday by the Lagos Zonal Directorate 1 of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on separate charges of possession of fraudulent documents.
02:53One of the counts reads, that you, Bevelin Casino sometime in December 2024, in Lagos, within the jurisdiction of this honorable court, willfully caused to be accessed, computer systems organized to seriously destabilize and destroy the fundamental economic and social structure of Nigeria when you procured, employed Nigerian youths for identity theft and to hold themselves out as persons of foreign nationality,
03:20with the intent to gain a financial advantage for yourselves and you thereby committed an offense contrary to unpunishable under Section 18 of the Cybercrimes, Prohibition, Prevention, etc. Act, 2015, as amended 2024, and Section 2, 3, D, of the Terrorism, Prevention, Prohibition, Act, 2022.
03:43They all pleaded, guilty, to the charges when they were read to them.
03:49In view of their pleas, the Prosecution Counsel, N.K. Okoha, prayed the court to convict the defendants as charged.
03:57Justice Oluwai convicted and sentenced the defendants to one year imprisonment each, with a fine of 1 million nairas, 1 million naira.
04:05The judge also ordered the Comptroller General of the Nigeria Immigration Service NIS, to ensure that the convicts are repatriated to their country of origin within 7 days upon completion of their sentences.
04:18The devices recovered from the defendants were also ordered, forfeited to the Federal Government of Nigeria.
04:25The convicts' journey to the Correctional Center began when they were arrested by operatives of the EFCC for cyberterrorism and Internet fraud.
04:34They're among the 792 suspects rounded up in December 2024 in Victoria Island, Lagos.
04:42They were charged to court and jailed.
04:44EFCC arraigns man for alleged 23.5 million nairas visa scam in Lagos.
04:51The Lagos Zonal Directorate, one of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Tuesday, June 3, 2025,
05:01arraigned one a woolen chimes Felix on an 11-count charge bordering on obtaining money by false pretense,
05:07stealing, possession of fraudulent documents and forgery to the tune of 23,500,280 nairas, 23,500 naira 280 kobo,
05:21before Justice Mojisola Dada of the Special Offences Court sitting in Akeja, Lagos.
05:27Chimes allegedly promised to help the petitioner obtain a United Kingdom visa, work permit as well as a certificate of sponsorship to travel abroad.
05:36He, however, allegedly reneged on his promise after collecting money from the petitioner.
05:43One of the counts reads,
05:44A woolen chimesi Felix, trading under the name and style of Slenzi Ventures, sometime in 2024 at Lagos,
05:52within the jurisdiction of this Honorable Court, with intent to defraud,
05:56obtained the sum of 18,038,000 nairas.
05:5918,038,000 naira only, from
06:03Nakiri Chiedozi Boniface by falsely representing that the money was for procuring the United Kingdom visa and work permit,
06:12a representation you knew to be false.
06:14Another count reads,
06:15That you, a woolen chimes Felix, on or about the 10th of March 2025 at Lagos, within the jurisdiction of this Honorable Court,
06:25with intent to defraud, had in your possession several fraudulent documents,
06:29one of which is a forged Florida driver's license with the name,
06:33Wojticek Adrena, which you presented to unsuspecting victims,
06:37a representation you knew to be false.
06:40He pleaded not guilty to the charges when they were read to him.
06:43In view of this, Prosecution Counsel, M.B. Aisha,
06:48prayed for a trial date,
06:50and also urged the court to remand the defendant at a correctional center pending his trial date.
06:56The defense counsel, Michael O., in Wigbo, however,
07:00informed the court of a pending application for bail for his client,
07:04and also prayed for a short date for the hearing.
07:08Consequently, Justice Dardar adjourned the matter till June 17, 2025,
07:13for the commencement of trial and also ordered the custodial remand of the defendant pending his trial.
07:19Another count reads,
07:21that you, a woollen chimes Felix,
07:23on or about the 10th of March 2025 at Lagos,
07:27within the jurisdiction of this Honorable Court,
07:30with intent to defraud,
07:31had in your possession several fraudulent documents,
07:34one of which is a forged Florida driver's license with the name,
07:38Wojticek Adrena,
07:39which you presented to unsuspecting victims,
07:42a representation you knew to be false.
07:45He pleaded not guilty to the charges when they were read to him.
07:48In view of this, prosecution counsel, M. B. Isha,
07:53prayed for a trial date,
07:55and also urged the court to remand the defendant at a correctional center pending his trial date.
08:01The defense counsel, Michael O., in Wigbo, however,
08:05informed the court of a pending application for bail for his client,
08:09and also prayed for a short date for the hearing.
08:13Consequently,
08:14Justice Dada adjourned the matter till June 17, 2025,
08:18for the commencement of trial,
08:20and also ordered the custodial remand of the defendant pending his trial.
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