00:00Federal High Court sitting in Lagos state of Nigeria has found guilty 15 Chinese citizens, two Philippines and one Pakistan national for cyberterrorism, hence the court sentenced them to one year imprisonment and ordered the Nigeria Immigration Service to facilitate the deportation of the convicts immediately after they completed the various jail term.
00:21Details of the report as presented by the Public Relations Unit of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC reads verbatim below.
00:30Court jails 15 Chinese, two Filipinos, one Pakistani for cyberterrorism, internet fraud in Lagos.
00:38The Lagos Zonal Directorate, one of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Thursday, June 19 and Friday, June 20, 2025, secured the conviction and sentence of 15 Chinese, two Filipinos and one Pakistani for cyberterrorism and internet fraud before Justices Chukujuku Aneke, Iokunle Faji and Yelem Bogoro of the Federal High Court sitting in Akkoi, Lagos.
01:06The suspects are, Peng Li Huynh, Zhang Jinrong, Heekun, Rochelle Caballona, Kaslan Pianella, Guo Longlong, Zhang Hua Zhai, Lin Haobo, Chen Fusheng, Chen Dongdong, Wang Gonglin, Pan Kaiyu, Huang Renjian, Zhang Xiaolei, Karam Shazard, Chen Yuan, Wu Yongan and Chen Xin.
01:30The suspects were arraigned on separate charges bordering on cyberterrorism and internet fraud.
01:36One of the charges reads, that you, Kaslan Pianella, 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.
01:56When you procured, employed Nigerian youths for identity theft and to hold themselves out as persons of foreign nationality, with the intent to gain financial advantage for yourselves and you thereby committed an offense contrary to unpunishable
02:10under 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.
02:26They all pleaded, guilty, to the charges when they were read to them.
02:32In view of their pleas, the Prosecution Counsel, Spiffa Wede, Vilkasu Buhari Bala, Chenenye Okesi, Ebuka Okongwu, B.M.I. Sir and Nambam Mutfwang respectively prayed the court to convict the defendants and also order the forfeiture all the exhibits recovered from them.
02:49The judges found them guilty of the charges and convicted them accordingly.
02:54All the convicts were sentenced to one year imprisonment, with a fine of one million nairas, one million naira.
03:01The judge also ordered that upon completion of their sentences, the Comptroller General of the Nigeria Immigration Service, NIS, should ensure that they are repatriated to their country of origin within seven days.
03:13The judge also ordered that the items recovered from them be forfeited to the federal government of Nigeria.
03:20The convicts are among the 792 suspects arrested by operatives of the EFCC for alleged cyber-terrorism.
03:29They were charged to court and jailed.
03:31EFCC arraigns fake Bureau de Shange operator in Lagos.
03:35The Lagos Zonal Directorate II of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Wednesday, June 18, 2025, arraigned one Abdul Karam Awalu before Justice A.O.
03:49O.O.I. of the Federal High Court sitting in Okoye, Lagos.
03:53Awalu was arraigned on a six-count charge bordering on operating Bureau de Shange business without an appropriate license by the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN.
04:03The petitioner alleged that he was approached by some unknown persons on the phone with a business proposal for investments in the defendant's business and other related businesses in Nigeria.
04:15The proposal allegedly involved the injection of about $10 million, $10 million USD, into the defendant's science and hospital equipment business.
04:25It was also alleged that in the course of facilitating the transmission of the boxes containing the $10,000, $010 million USD,
04:35the purported agents of the defendant kept presenting demand notices for the payment of various amounts of money from the nominal complainant
04:43under the guise of meeting statutory charges for the clearance of the said boxes containing the money to his Kano office address.
04:50Investigation revealed that Awalu made cash payments, rather than using a financial institution.
04:57One of the counts reads, that you, Abdul Karam Awalu, sometime within January and April 2024 in Lagos,
05:05within the jurisdiction of this Honorable Court, without a company duly incorporated in Nigeria,
05:11failed to obtain a valid license from the Central Bank of Nigeria to carry on your business of Bureau de Change
05:18and you thereby committed an offense contrary to Section 57 of the Banks and Other Financial Institutions Act,
05:252020 and punishable under Sections 57, 5, of the same act.
05:30He pleaded, not guilty, to the charge preferred against him.
05:34In view of this, the Prosecution Counsel, A.A. Usman, asked the court for a trial date
05:41and also prayed for the remand of the defendant in a correctional center.
05:46The defense counsel, Abdul Qadir Wadi, however, informed the court of a pending bail application,
05:52which he sought to move.
05:55Responding, Usman told the court that he had not received the bail application.
05:59He was, thereafter, served in the open court.
06:03Justice Oluwai remanded the defendant in the correctional center and adjourned till July 1, 2025
06:09for the hearing of the bail application.
06:12Process Oluwai remanded the speaker, bringing youth the news in a mortgage is a way.
