by Admin | Aug 19, 2016 | Blog |
Follow @NigeriaPI Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, have arrested a fake lawyer, Thankgod Okachi Echem in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, for defrauding his ” client”, a sum of N7,000,000. Okachi, who confessed to be a School Certificate holder, was arrested based on a petition to the EFCC by one of his “clients”: Mr. Jonny Wali who alleged that the fake lawyer defrauded him of the sum of N7,000,000, being part of the money awarded him by a Rivers State High Court, sitting in Port Harcourt, as compensation in a legal battle involving him and the former Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN) now Port Harcourt Electricity Distribution Company. Wali reportedly sued the Port Harcourt Electricity Distribution Company in a matter bordering on land trespass in suit number PHC/468/09 before Justice W.A.Chey Chey of the Rivers State High Court and was awarded the sum of N10,000,000( Ten Million Naira only) as compensation. However, the company failed to pay the compensation to him. In seeking redress for the payment of the money, he reportedly employed the legal services of Thankgod hOkachi Echem and Felix Agbarake (Thank God/ Felix & Co. Norugema Chambers). In 2015, the court ruled in his favour and granted another sum of N8,000,000( Eight Million Naira only) as the accumulated interest on the initial N10,000,000 granted as compensation by the court. A sum of N18, 000,000( Eighteen Million Naira only) was consequently paid by the Electricity company to him through Echem’s chambers. Trouble crept into the whole matter when Echem( who was later found to be a fake lawyer) connived with his colleague: Felix...
by Admin | Aug 19, 2016 | Blog |
Follow @NigeriaPI Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, have arrested a suspected impersonator posing as the former Executive Chairman of the Commission, Mr. Ibrahim Lamorde. The suspect, Promise Tochi Nwalozie was arrested in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, in a sting operation that yielded the arrest of six other internet fraudsters. One of the fraudsters, Onukagba Uche Prosper, is a youth corps member serving in the Tai Local Government Area of Rivers State. Nwalozie was using the identity of Lamorde to send scam mails to foreigners, mostly Europeans and Americans and in the process extorted sizeable amount of foreign currencies from them. His weapon of fraudulent interaction with his victims was a fake electronic copy of the identity card of the former EFCC’s boss. Besides, he was also posing as Barrister Peter Jackson, a spurious lawyer working with the National Judicial Council, NJC in Nigeria. As a lawyer, he was defrauding his victims by assuring them that he would help in the recovery of money lost to different Nigerian cyber fraudsters. To do this, Jackson was collecting various sums of money as service charges from his victims. Some of his victims are: Betty. G. E, an American and Georgina M, an Australian. In addition to all these, Nwalozie had multifarious electronic scam documents in various folders in his e-mail box, ostensibly for the payment of a spurious N12,500,000.00( Twelve Million, Five Hundred Thousand Naira only) to one Robert Giese, an American, by the “Office of the Presidency, Federal Republic of Nigeria, Abuja”. To further deceive Giese, he swore to a fictitious ” Affidavit Of Claim of Federal...
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