The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), ON Monday,
November 6th, 2017 secured the conviction of one Mohammed Yusuf before Justice
Zainab Bage Abubakar of the Federal High Court, Gusau, Zamfara State.
The convict was sentenced to 7 years imprisonment on each of the eleven count
charge preferred against him by the EFCC. Yusuf had defrauded one Ya’u Mohammed
to the tune of N20 million between November 2012 and January 2013 in a classic
advance fee fraud scheme.
Posing as a ‘spirit’ named ‘Asmau’, based in Niger Republic,
the convict was able to convince the complainant through a phone call into
believing that the mystery female voice had powers to establish schools and
mosques to propagate Islam but needed a human vessel through which this could
be achieved.
The complainant gullibly fell into his trap after threats
that he either obeys the voice of the spirit or die.
Subsequently, the convict began to extort his victim and
used the money to buy exotic cars and acquire a mansion in red bricks area of
Kano state.
The sentences are to run concurrently from the day of his
arrest.
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