Internet fraudster bags 1 year jail term over $700 scam

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Internet fraudster bags 1 year jail term over $700 scam

A Federal Capital Territory, FCT, High Court in Gwagwalada, on Wednesday sentenced a 29-year-old internet fraudster, Eke Emmanuel, AKA Miller Fulton, to one-year imprisonment for swindling his victim of 700 dollars.

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) had prosecuted the convict before the court on a charge of cheating by impersonation.

Emmanuel pleaded guilty to the charge and begged for mercy.

Delivering judgment, Justice Aliyu Shafa, held that the convict was guilty and sentenced to the term in the correctional centre.

Shafa, however, granted the convict an option of N200,000 fine.

The judge also granted the application of the Prosecution Counsel, Chiamaka Njoku, that the iphone X cellphone used to commit the crime and the 700 dollars recovered from the convict should be forfeited to the Federal Government.

He also ordered that the convict should swear to an affidavit of good behaviour after his term in jail or upon paying his fine.

Earlier, the convict while pleading for mercy, told the court that he was deeply sorry for his action.

The Defence Counsel, P.E. Egeolu in his allocutus on behalf of the convict pleaded with the court to temper justice with mercy.