Man gets one-year jail term for giving false information to EFCC

<p>Justice Darius Khobo of the Kaduna State High Court has sentenced one Misbah Ahmed to one-year imprisonment on a one-count charge bordering on false information.</p>, <p>The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, (EFCC) in a statement said Ahmed misled operatives of the Commission into believing that a huge sum of money in foreign currency was stashed in a residence located at Federal Housing Low-cost, Tudun Wada, Zamfara State.</p>, <p>“The offence is contrary to Section 39(a) of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (Establishment ) Act, 2004 and punishable under Section 39(2) (b) of the same Act,” EFCC said.</p>, <p>After pleading guilty to the charge, the prosecution counsel, K.S Ogunlade urged the court to convict him accordingly.</p>, <p>Justice Khobo convicted and sentenced him to one-year imprisonment or a fine of N 100,000.</p>, <p>Meanwhile, the Kaduna Zonal Command of the EFCC secured the conviction of the trio of Miracle Obiduikwu, Baneywu Ambrose, and Francis Uba Chidebere on separate one-count charge bordering on internet fraud.</p>, <p>The defendants who were arrested in different parts of Kaduna following intelligence linking them to various internet fraud-related activities, were found to have defrauded some foreign nationals through social media.</p>