Yahoo boys look happy in mugshots as EFCC secures conviction in Enugu

The Enugu Zonal Command of the Financial and Monetary Crimes Fee, (EFCC), has secured the conviction of 4 web fraudsters generally termed Yahoo Boys.

The anti-graft company arraigned the 4 convicts earlier than Justice F. O. Giwa Ogunbanjo of the Federal Excessive Courtroom Enugu, Enugu State on Friday January 14.

They have been convicted on expenses bordering on forgery and impersonation to defraud.

Mugshot photographs of two of the felons, Orji Okpara Chimaobi and Okechukwu Kelvin, which confirmed them smiling, have gone viral.

Following credible intelligence stories on the actions of fraudsters swindling unsuspecting victims of their hard-earned earnings inside Enugu and its environs, operatives of the EFCC swung into motion and within the course of arrested the convicts at varied places throughout the metropolis.

Devices utilized in committing the crime akin to telephones, laptops together with the fraudulent messages printed out of their telephones and laptops in addition to their confessional statements have been tendered and admitted in proof by the courtroom.

Delivering judgment on the instances on Friday, Justice Ogunbanjo stated the courtroom positioned reliance on the unchallenged testimonies of the prosecution witnesses and all of the reveals tendered. He held that the prosecution had established its case past affordable doubts.

Consequently, three of the convicts, Orji Okpara Chimaobi, Ngene Emmanuel and Okechukwu Kelvin have been sentenced to 2 years in jail with possibility of superb of A million Naira every, whereas Eneh Nelson Chukwudire was sentenced to 1 12 months with possibility of A million Naira superb.