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Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), successful collaboration with the Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS) and the Nigerian Correctional Service (NCoS), has completed the deportation of 192 convicted foreigners. They were jailed by the Federal High Court successful Lagos for cyberterrorism, net fraud and related fiscal crimes.
Apart from sentencing the overseas nationals to assorted jailhouse terms, the 4 judges who grip the cases — Justice Ayokunle Faji, Justice Dehinde Dipeolu, Justice Nicholas Osiagor, and Justice Chukwujekwu Aneke — had ordered that they beryllium deported aft serving their sentences.
The past 51 convicts were deported to their countries implicit the weekend.
The deportation workout followed the apprehension and palmy prosecution of 759 suspects during a large sting cognition conducted by the EFCC connected December 10, 2024, astatine Oyin Jolayemi Street, Victoria Island, Lagos.
The archetypal batch of 42 convicts, consisting of Chinese and Filipino nationals, was deported connected August 15, 2025, portion others were sent retired of the state successful August and September successful enactment with the tribunal orders and migration procedures.
The deported convicts hailed from respective countries, including China, the Philippines, Tunisia, Malaysia, Pakistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Timor-Leste.
All deported individuals received situation sentences aft being arrested alongside their Nigerian accomplices, believed to beryllium portion of an precocious cybercrime and Ponzi strategy syndicate operating nether the guise of Genting International Co. Limited.
The cognition was based connected credible quality and consequent investigations, confirming that the convicted foreigners were progressive successful large-scale online fraud, individuality theft, and cyber-enabled Ponzi schemes.
Evidence showed they were grooming recruits and managing fraudulent integer platforms designed to defraud victims locally and internationally. The Nigeria Immigration Service deported them arsenic directed by the court.
The anti-graft bureau had claimed that earlier the raid, the cybercrime syndicate had a large-scale cognition involving cyber fraud and Ponzi schemes.
The charges against the convicts included utilizing mendacious identities online to defraud victims, grooming Genting International Co. Limited employees successful fraudulent practices, and different offences nether the Advance Fee Fraud and Other Related Offences Act of 2006.
The EFCC had stated that these charges bespeak superior crimes aimed astatine undermining Nigeria’s information and fiscal integrity done cybercrime and fraud.
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