Woman gets 90 years jail term for fraud
A Nigerian woman, Mrs Chika Amsy Charles has been convicted by Justice DV Agishir of the Federal High Court sitting in Enugu, and sentenced to 90 years imprisonment.
Mrs Charles was sentenced to three years imprisonment on each of the thirty count charge preferred against her by the Economic and Financial
Crimes Commission (EFCC).
Crimes Commission (EFCC).
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 offenses Act No: 14 of 2006 and punishable under Section 1(3) of the same act.”
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