A Nigerian student schooling in Malaysia, Hope Olusegun Aroke, has been jailed 24 years for a N25 million internet scam.
Justice Lateefa Okunnu of the Lagos State High Court, sitting in Ikeja convicted and sentenced the 25-year old undergraduate of Kuala Lumpur Metropolitan University, Malaysia, based on the information provide to information from the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).
Aroke was arraigned before Justice Okunnu on a two-count charge bordering on obtaining money by false pretence; cheque cloning, wire transfer and forgery.
Spokesman to the EFCC, Wilson Uwujaren said the court found him guilty of the two charges and was sentenced to twelve years imprisonment on each of the two counts.The sentence are to run concurrently.
“Troubles came for Aroke when an anonymous petitioner wrote to the EFCC alleging that the Kogi state-born undergraduate was involved in sundry fraudulent activities on the internet. The EFCC swung into action and investigated the internet dealings of Aroke.
Investigations showed that he was involved in several romance scam that fetched him a total sum of 40,000 ringgit ( Malaysian currency). Aroke admitted sending the money to Nigeria through one Angela, who later helped him deposit its naira equivalent, N25 million in a new generation bank”,
Uwujaren said, adding that two exotic cars were found in his possession at the time of arrest. They are both worth N23 million .
Uwujaren said, adding that two exotic cars were found in his possession at the time of arrest. They are both worth N23 million .
Aside his conviction, Aroke is said to still have two other matters yet undecided before Justice B. Idris of the Federal High Court Lagos
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Na wah oh!!!...40k ringgit is 25million naira?ehen!!!
Good for him
ReplyDeleteAll those guys in Malaysia are Yahoo boys. I think a friend of his gave him up
ReplyDeleteShame
ReplyDeleteAn anonymous petitioner in deed. The petitioner must be either a jilted ex, an envious friend or another yahoo boy like him wey the guy don oppress tire.
ReplyDeleteAbi o...i agree with you Stranger
DeleteNawao Nigerian currency doesn't have any value at all.
ReplyDeleteCommon 40,000 ringgit is equivalent to 25million Naira.....
Everyday for the thief. ....
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And what have they done 2 dansuki n Metuh?
ReplyDeleteI wonder how loads of people stil fall prey to internet scam.especially The Romance one.
ReplyDeleteWonder who d anonymous whistle-blower is.
Young man,off to jail u go.u are lucky it wasn't over there in KL u were caught and sentenced.
Ndi Osu imi everywhere...
DeleteGood to know
ReplyDeleteNaira na paper.
ReplyDeleteThen what .EFCC leave romance and romancers scam alone ,a lot of people do internet scam ,not only Nigerians ,some Americans dont go any where they live on the internet hacking billions of dollars daily ,some aussie people are proffesional hackers ,you think Nigerians steal more on the internet ,Nigerians are learners ,EFCC face all those thieves in Nigeria and leave cyber alone their not the causer of Nigeria s problem
ReplyDeleteDats true diva, who scam more dan our leaderS?top leaders are der dey wldnt focus on dos ones dats sell billions of dollars na dis small boy nd small moni he wld go to jail for 24yrs.nonsensE
DeleteThank you oh!..
DeleteAnd you are calling for change??
DeleteHow would there be change when you are in support of people robbing others of their hard earned money??
Why are you asking the likes of dasuki to return money stolen if yahoo boys should walk with their own money free??
Do you know how many people have committed suicide after they find out they were scammed of their money?? How many people are left with nothing?? And how many people are admitted in psychiatry after this??
Yahoo boys and armed robbers what the difference??
Yahoo boys and drug dealers what's the difference??
Anonymous 10:59,how can you even compare cyber scam to federal government looting.my friend if you dont have what to say blow whistle with your mouth,have you heard of people called hackers am sure you havent ,when you visit stella s blog to read and comment did any one forcefully ask you to ,that is your food for thought,change should start from the government change should start from them babaginda atiku obasanjo ,snd leave cyber scam alone ,cyber scam is every where in the world
DeleteBia anonymous do you know that must legit business are fund by drug money ,even some banks in the world are run by drug money abeg no let me loose my temper ,iam sure you are related to one of those robbers called politicians
DeleteAnd you Bootywhatever must be related to drug dealers and scammers! See defence for nonsense, talking rubbish. Just say that's what you and your family members are into and stop trying to justify what is wrong. Do you know how many people drugs have killed and ruined?? How many people have lost their life savings to scammers and are now destitute?? I think efcc needs to beam their searchlight on you cos clearly you have links to them.
DeleteThat's Nigerian's work in Malay. The country is not easy for poor Nigeria student.
ReplyDeleteHe don snatch gf dey don snitch him.24 year-term,he'll spend 18 years + his age 25.sad sad sad
ReplyDeleteEje
Let him go to jail. Its easy for them to send normal people to jail but all those buhari has been probing up nd down. I never hear say any of them were sentenced to go to jail rather they will use 2percent of the money they stole to bail themselves. Now who is decieving who. Am not in support of stealing any one who disobeys the law irrespective of social status should go to jail Am just thinking out loud.
ReplyDeleteThey won't hear
ReplyDeleteAnd Tinubu that stole billions in Lagos is walking a free man...
ReplyDeleteThis has shown that if you want to eat frog,chop better one!...
Thank God he is not an Igbo man!...
Foolish idiot.u r so disgusting and brainless.like d ghanaian doctor dat was sacked for recommending ur stupid prophet,I think u shld be hanged too.
DeleteRainmaker
Linda, dont mind them. If it's an igbo person now, they will make it all about tribe. I trust igbo people not to follow same path as those foolish people.
DeleteNegodu I must bcom a big boy.
ReplyDeleteSo Malaysia's currency has more weight/value than Nigeria's Naira.
ReplyDeleteEfcc has quickly sentenced this one in Malaysia but cannot do same in Nigeria. Blind law enforcement agencies wey full Nigeria, small time the citizens go turn against una. All the names of corrupt officials you guys have been publishing so none is worthy of sentencing? Ok una kontinu.
ReplyDeleteI Still don't Understand How romance On Internet Is A Scam, U tel a Lady you Love her and she replied she Loves you too, @ a point you ask her for money to solve 1 problem or the other which she sent you out of her own gud heart, u never force her, please how is it A crime, even here in Nigeria u meet a girl on Badoo, Facebook, WhatsApp, 2go, and @ a point she ask you of money which you give to her, Y is it not also a crime? Please EFCC leave all these guys alone ooo the Economy is very hard, go after the thief politicians, you guys think to convince somebody to send you money and the person did, u think is easy or you think sitting on a computer more than Customer care in the bank, cracking brain is easy?
ReplyDeleteAnon 9:32 thank you.
DeleteThank you oh.. ndi ara busy body!
Delete40,000 riggint is just 1.8 milla naira na...how do they convert theirs? Na wa ooo.....
ReplyDeleteAnon 10:59,you are very stupid.Did they force them to pay the money?There are so many Cooperate/technical cum political scams going on in Nigeria and nobody is against that.Who could have believed that a whopping sum of $2.1b was single handedly squandered by one person.What about our missing $20b,till date nothing has been heard of it.Abeg,make all of una park well.I say it CONFIDENTLY,YAHOO BETTER PASS ARMED ROBBERY.So many families have been elevated today due to yahoo.
ReplyDeleteIf you were to come from a family where your father is being paid 18k as salary,tell me,how will you go to secondary school not to talk of high institution?Fact is that most of you people dont face the reality.So many scams is going on in Nigeria,Government parastatals,civil servant,religious houses etc.
Some have even join polictics,entertainment and so all,and you are there spewing trash.Its not how you make money that matters but how you spend it.Tell me one of our present leaders ,that made his/her money in a clean way?If i hursle and can be able to convince client and i get paid,no big deal about that.