Igbokwe, and his accomplice, Ifeanyi Obi have been
arrested by the Economic and Financial Crimes
Commission (EFCC) for allegedly defrauding an
American of $40 million.
19-year-old Igbokwe and Obi have been held at the
Kirikiri prisons since they were caught after a gig went
burst.
Nigerian Eye reports that the American victim, Michael
Silva had wired the total sum of $40 million to the boys in
Nigerian believing them when they told him that they had
a huge inheritance that they wanted to move to a foreign
account for safekeeping.
Silva was asked to send money to "process" the transfer
and he did so in instalments through Western Union
Transfer.
Igbokwe and Obi have now been charged on 12-counts
bordering on forgery, conspiracy and obtaining money by
false pretences contrary to Sections 8(a) and 1(3) of the
Advance Fee Fraud and Other Fraud Related Offences Act
No. 14 of 2006.
Appearing before Justice Lawal of a Lagos State High
Court, Ikeja was alleged to have duped many other
people, many of them foreigners he connected with
through the internet under fraudulent guises among them a
Tommy Bedwell, who lost $6,000 to him and Richard
Hunt, $15,000.
According to reports, one of the charges against Igbokwe
and Obi read: "Tobechukwu Igbokwe (alias David Prince,
alias John Emma, sometimes in the month of October
2011 in Lagos, within the Ikeja Judicial Division, with
intent to defraud, obtained $800, $700, $200, $400, $200,
$300, $500, $500, $500, $200 (totalling $5,500).
"Which sum you obtained separately from Michael Silva
of the United States of America under false pretence that
the money represent part payment for processing
inheritance funds due him as
a beneficiary of the fund and which pretence you knew
was false."
The case was adjourned for further hearing on December
3.
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