An operative of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Ayotunde Solademi, has narrated to a Lagos State Special Offences Court in Ikeja how an alleged fraudster, Uchenna Igwegbe, collaborated with a United States-based fraud syndicate to rip off some Nigerians and foreigners.
Solademi, who is attached to the Office of the Legal Attache US Consulate, Lagos, told the trial judge, Justice Sherifat Solebo, that Igwegbe engaged in the online scam with a well-known criminal, Obinna Kelvin Obioha, who was arrested and jailed in the US for multi-million-dollar fraud.
The foreign operative was testifying to the second prosecution witness in the ongoing trial of the defendant over allegations of facilitating “the fraudulent obtaining of funds from unsuspecting members of the public totalling the sum of $937,073.00.
The prosecution had told the judge that the offences are contrary to Section 17 of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC Act, 2004 and Section 1 (1)(a) and 1 (3) of the Advance Fee Fraud and other Related Fraud Offences Act 2006.
He, however, pleaded not guilty to the charge
Solademi testified that the defendant supplied bank accounts to Obinna Kelvin Obioha to defraud unsuspecting members of the public abroad and in Nigeria.
The witness, who claimed to have investigated and analysed communications between the defendant and Obinna, said that the analysed communication found in Obinna’s seized devices revealed that Uchenna Justice Igwegbe,…
