The Lagos Command of the EFCC on Tuesday secured the conviction and sentencing of two internet fraudsters, John Austin and Alebiosu Rasheed Salam over internet fraud.
Justice O.A. Okunuga of the Lagos State High Court sitting in Ikeja, Lagos delivered the ruling.
The convicts were separately arraigned on a one-count charge bordering on the use of fraudulent documents to engage in online dating scam, through which they defrauded their unsuspecting victims.
They both separately pleaded guilty to the one-count charge.
In the course of the separate proceedings, counsel for the EFCC, S.O. Daji, gave reviews of the facts in each of the separate trials.
The cousle told the court that the defendants, upon their arrests at different times, were further interrogated by operatives of the EFCC during which they volunteered statements admitting to their involvement in internet fraud.
