EFCC arraigns two over alleged N8.9m investment fraud in Awka

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has arraigned 2 men, Samuel Inalegwu Okpala and Ezelibe Emmanuel Nzube, earlier the Federal High Court sitting successful Awka implicit an alleged N8.9 cardinal fraud.

The defendants were brought earlier Justice Bala Khalifa-Mohammed Usman by the Enugu Zonal Directorate of the anti-graft bureau connected a four-count complaint bordering connected conspiracy, fraudulent impersonation, and obtaining wealth nether mendacious pretence.

According to the EFCC, the alleged offences were committed successful 2025 successful Onitsha, wherever the defendants were said to person defrauded victims nether the guise of concern opportunities.

One of the charges reads: “That you, Samuel Inalegwu Okpala, sometime successful 2025, astatine Onitsha, Anambra State, wrong the jurisdiction of this honourable court, with the intent to defraud, induced 1 Clara Uwakonye to present to you the sum of Five million, Five Hundred Thousand Naira (N5,500,000.00) nether the pretence that she would person instrumentality connected investment, a practice which you knew to beryllium mendacious and thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 1(1)(a) of the Advance Fee Fraud and Other Fraud Related Offences Act, 2006 and punishable nether Section 1(3) of the same...