Court jails fake soldier two years for N500,000 car auction fraud in Ekiti

The Ekiti State High Court sitting successful Ado-Ekiti has sentenced Bethel Onyedikachi Ukachukwu to 2 years imprisonment for defrauding a nonmigratory of N500,000 nether the guise of securing a Nigeria Customs Service auction vehicle.

Justice Lekan Ogunmoye delivered the judgement connected Tuesday, July 28, 2026, aft convicting Ukachukwu connected charges bordering connected obtaining by mendacious pretence.

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, done its Ekiti Zonal Directorate, arraigned the suspect connected an amended three-count charge.

The anti-graft bureau said the convict obtained ₦500,000 from Mr. Kayode Aina Samuel aft claiming helium would usage the wealth to unafraid an auctioned conveyance from the Nigeria Customs Service.

One of the charges reads, “That you, Bethel Onyekachi Ukachukwu, sometimes successful 15th April 2026 astatine Ado Ekiti, Ekiti State wrong the jurisdiction of this Honorable tribunal with intent to defraud and get the full sum of Five Hundred Thousand Naira Only (N500,000.00) from 1 Kayode Aina Samuel nether the pretext that you volition usage the aforesaid wealth to bid for an auction car for him with Nigeria Customs Service which pretext you knew to beryllium mendacious which goes contrary to Section (1) (b) and 1 (3) of the Advance Fee Fraud and different Fraud Related Offences Act 2006.”

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