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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Kano Zonal Directorate, has secured the conviction of one Hauwa Abdullahi Ibrahim for smuggling an undeclared sum of $1,154,900 (One Million, One Hundred and Fifty-Four Thousand, Nine Hundred United States Dollars) and SDR135,900 Saudi Riyals (One Hundred and Thirty-Five Thousand, Nine Hundred Saudi Riyals) from Saudi Arabia into Nigeria.     She was …

A Magistrate Court in Kano has sentenced two TikTok users, Ahmad Isa and Maryam Musa, to one year in prison each, for sharing videos perceived to be offensive to religious and moral values.     The Kano State Censorship Board had earlier arrested the duo, accusing them of violating public decency through their social media posts.     During the …

A Kano magistrates’ court sitting at No 47 in Norman’s land, Fagge Local Government Area of Kano State, has sentenced two TikTokers for posting vulgar videos which violate religious and moral sensitivities of the state.    Ahmad Isa and Maryam Musa of Ladainai area in Hotoro Quarters were arrested by the state Censorship Board, and were later arraigned before the …

A man, Chika Stanley Okoh who posed as a male American actor on Facebook to commit internet fraud has been jailed and convicted by Justice Chukwujekwu Aneke of the Federal High Court, sitting in Ikoyi.  Chika Stanley Okoh was arraigned for internet fraud, before Justice Chukwujekwu Aneke by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC in December 2024 on a …

A Russian court has sentenced Eduard Sharlot, a 26-year-old singer, to five and a half years in prison for actions deemed as protesting Moscow’s military campaign in Ukraine.   The court in Samara, a city along the Volga River, found Sharlot guilty of “publicly insulting” religious believers and “rehabilitating Naziism,” according to state news agency RIA Novosti. The charges were …

Former International Monetary Fund chief Rodrigo Rato was on Friday, Dec. 20, sentenced  to more than four years in prison by a Madrid court for tax crimes, money laundering and corruption.  Judges found Rato, who was also a former economy minister in Spain, guilty of “three offences against the treasury, one offence of money laundering and one offence of corruption …

A military court in Rostov-on-Don, Russia, has sentenced an unnamed resident of Ukraine’s Lugansk region to 16 years in prison on charges of “high treason.” The Russian FSB security service alleged the individual had provided information about the Russian armed forces to Ukraine’s security services. The man was also convicted of aiding terrorist activities and illegally handling and transporting explosives. …

A US court has found a Nigerian US-based man, Oluwole Adegboruwa, 54 and his accomplice, Enrique Isong, 49, guilty of masterminding a multi-million dollar dark web drug trafficking operation,  and has sentenced them to a combined 40 years in jail term.  This was revealed in a statement on the website of the United States Attorney’s Office, District of Utah.   While …

The Federal Capital Territory (FCT) High Court sitting in Jabi,  Abuja has convicted and sentenced one Praise Humphrey Igbo (a.k.a) Jessica Allen to one year imprisonment for fraud amounting to $115,000.    Humphrey who was prosecuted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on a one-count charge, bordering on internet crime, criminal impersonation, was convicted by Justice H.L Abba-Aliyu …

Justice Suleiman Akanbi of the Kwara State High Court sitting in Ilorin on Monday, December 09, 2024 sentenced a student, Akanbi Akorede Afeez, to two years imprisonment for internet fraud.     The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, in a statement on Tuesday, December 10, disclosed that Afeez was arraigned on a lone-count charge bordering on internet fraud.   …