Nwaturuocha was summoned before Justice Darius Khobo of State High Court Kaduna on a two-check charge verging on pantomime and cheating.
The EFCC representative, Wilson Uwujaren, said that Nwaturuocha at some point in 2019, masked himself as a lesbian named Donna Walshak on the web-based life, and utilized the bogus personality to dupe Rose, who sent him steam cards worth $1,900. Nwaturuocha changed over it to money by selling the same on the web.
The cash, as per examination, was wired to him through the records of two Nigerian women domiciled in two new-age banks.
They blamed, in any case, argued not liable to the charges favored against him. Subsequently, the indicting counsel, E. K. Garba, encouraged the court to fix a date for becoming aware of the case while the resistance counsel, E. A. Audu, requested the bail of the respondent.
In the wake of tuning in to both direction, the judge fixed January 20, 2020, for becoming aware of the bail application and initiation of preliminary, while remanding the respondent in the Nigerian Correctional Center, Kaduna.
In another advancement, Justice Sikiru Oyinloye of a Kwara State High Court, Ilorin, sentenced a fraudster, Temitope Bambo.
The convict, who was arraigned on pantomime and Internet extortion charge, was indicted and condemned to a half year detainment.
The charge against him peruses: "That you, Temitope Bambo pseudonym Melisa Cole, approximately the 22nd day of October 2019, in Ilorin, inside the locale of the High Court of Kwara State, attempted to cheat by pantomime,
when you spoke to yourself as Melisa Cole, a white female to Dajuan Jacobs, an American resident, a portrayal you knew to be bogus and along these lines submitted an offense as opposed to Section 95 of the Penal Code and culpable under Section 324 of a similar law."
The litigant confessed to the charge brought against him by the EFCC.
While checking on the realities of the case, Lamidi Ibrahim, a usable of the EFCC, told the court that the respondent was captured alongside three others dependent on knowledge reports. He said they all admitted to the wrongdoing.
Conveying judgment, Justice Oyinloye said the supplication of the respondent and the declaration of the indictment witness (PW1) were sufficient to persuade the court that the arraignment had demonstrated its case past a sensible uncertainty.
The judge, nonetheless, requested that an iPhone 6 recuperated from the convict be relinquished to the Federal Government.
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