EFCC: Two Fraudsters Goes to Prison In Sokoto

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A Sokoto state court has found two fraudsters guilty.

Abdulmajeed Habeeblah and Nana Hauwau Umar were found guilty and given three-year prison terms apiece by Justice Mohammed Mohammed of the Sokoto State High Court for defrauding an ATM.

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On Monday, July 18, 2022, the fraudsters were found guilty after entering a plea to two counts of theft and criminal conspiracy charges after being charged by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, or EFCC, Sokoto Zonal Command.

In accordance with count two of the charges, “you Abdulmajeed Habeeblah, male, and Umar Nana Hauwau, female, sometime in April 2021 at Sokoto within the Sokoto Judicial Division of the High Court of Justice of Sokoto State dishonestly took the total sum of N141,000.00 (One Hundred and Forty-One Thousand Naira only) from the GTB account number 0115282363 of one Maiyaki Hamza Usman by

When the accusations were read to them, they pleaded guilty.

Sokoto Court Sends Two Fraudsters to Prison for ATM Fraud

Justice Mohammed Mohammed of the Sokoto State High Court has convicted and sentenced Abdulmajeed Habeeblah and Nana Hauwau Umar to three years imprisonment each, for committing an Automated Teller Machine, ATM, fraud. pic.twitter.com/sI1neFkBeV

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They were convicted and sentenced to one year in jail on count one and two years in prison on count two by Justice Mohammed after he found them guilty of the two count accusations. They had the choice of paying a fine of N20,000 ($20,000) apiece for count one and N30,000 ($30,000) each for count two. Additionally, the judge ruled that the convicted individuals must repay their victim in full the N141, 000 (one hundred and forty-one thousand Naira) that had been taken from his bank account.

The criminals’ path to the Correctional Center began in April 2021 when they stole N141,000 from Maiyaki Hamza Usman’s bank account. They were charged, tried, and ultimately found guilty.

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