A Federal High Court sitting in Uyo, Akwa Ibom state has convicted and sentenced a not@rious international fr@udster, Scales Olatunji, to 235 years imprisonment for internet fr@ud and money laundering.
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Olatunji was arrested by operatives of the EFCC on March 20, 2019 and arraigned on July 2, 2019 on 45-count charges bordering on identity theft, money laundering and conspiracy.
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Between January 2017 to October 2018, the convict conspired with four others (at large) to fr@udulently acquire the total sum of N525,172,580 through Business E-mail Compromise and Identity Theft, the court heard.
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On May 15, 2018, he sent an email to one Monica Goulmoen of the Charity Association for providing girls and boys in Kobane with a football pitch, while impersonating a certain Per Ravn Omdal, a former Norwegian Football Association President, demanding the sum of €64,000 to be transferred to him.
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