BEVERLY HILLS, August 19, (THEWILL) – An internet fraudster on the wanted list of the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) of the United States Department of Justice has been sentenced to two years imprisonment in Nigeria..
Abiona Festus was convicted and sentenced by Justice Oluwatoyin Taiwo of the Lagos State Special Offences Court in Ikeja on Tuesday.
Festus was prosecuted by the Ilorin Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), the agency’s Head of Media and Publicity, Dele Oyewale, said in a statement.
Oyewale explained that the FBI, in a petition dated July 10, 2019, had appealed to the Ilorin zonal office of the EFCC to ensure Festus’ arrest and prosecution, for his roles in a multi-million naira international scam.
Festus on January 2011-May 2016 in Lagos used the email (ellajones05@yahoo.com) to bypass online security and obtained by tricks the sum of N5,950,000 (Five Million, Nine Hundred and Fifty Thousand Naira), through retirement accounts held by an insurance company for public workers in the United States of America.
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