The Economic and Financial Crimes
Commission EFCC, on Thursday October
27, 2016, 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 charges
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”.
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