The Economic and
Financial Crimes Commission EFCC Thursday secured the conviction of one Mrs. Chika Amsy
Charles, who was convicted by Justice D.V Agishir of the Federal High Court
Enugu, and sentenced to three years imprisonment on each of the thirty count
charge preferred against her by the Commission.
The sentences are to run
concurrently from the date of her conviction.
The Convict was found
guilty of swindling three young Nigerians to the tune of N5,620,000.00 (Five
million, Six Hundred and Twenty Thousand Naira only) under the guise of
helping them secure admission into Enugu State University of Science and
Technology ESUTH, through her unregistered NGO called 'Bold and Dynamic Gender
Initiative'.
But Chika ran out of
luck in 2007 when one of her victims whom she defrauded petitioned the EFCC, on
her fraudulent activities.
One of the Counts on
which she was convicted and sentenced reads: “That you Chika Amsy Charles,
Simon Chidubem (at large) and Friday Ali(at large) on or about the 10th
October, 2007 at Enugu, Enugu State within the jurisdiction of the Federal High
Court of Nigeria with intent to defraud obtained N330,000(Three Hundred and
Thirty Thousand) from Okudoh Obinna by false pretense when you represented
yourselves as capable of procuring admission for his wards into Enugu State
University of Science and Technology which pretense you knew to be false and
thereby committed an offense contrary to Section 1(1)(b) of the Advanced Fee
Fraud and Other Related Offences Act NO: 14 of 2006 and punishable under
Section 1(3) of the same Act”.
Source: PRNigeria
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