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The Federal Excessive Courtroom sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos, has convicted and sentenced 9 Chinese language nationals to 1 12 months imprisonment every for his or her involvement in cyber-terrorism and web fraud.
The convicted people, Qin Xiao Yong, Luo Mao Yang, Liu Ni Ni, Liu Gang, Solar Qi (also called Wan Jin Ping), Zhang Juan, Li de Wen, Enjoyable Min, and Tan Ming, had been discovered responsible by Justice D.E. Osiagor on Monday.
They had been amongst a syndicate of 792 suspected cryptocurrency funding and romance fraudsters arrested on December 19, 2024, throughout a sting operation codenamed Eagle Flush Operation, performed by operatives of the Financial and Monetary Crimes Fee (EFCC).
The defendants had been arraigned in February 2025 by the Lagos Zonal Directorate 2 of the EFCC on a one-count cost bordering on cyber-terrorism and web fraud.
One of many expenses learn, “That you just, Qin Xiao Yong, Luo Mao Yang, Liu Ni Ni, Liu Gang, Solar Qi (a.okay.a Wan Jin Ping), Zhang Juan, Li de Wen, Enjoyable Min, Tan Ming, someday in December, 2024 at Lagos, inside the jurisdiction of this Honourable Courtroom, conspired amongst yourselves to commit an offence to wit: trigger to be accessed pc system used for the aim of destabilising and destroying the financial system and social construction of Nigeria and thereby dedicated an offence opposite to Part 27 (1) (b) and punishable beneath Part 18(1) of the Cybercrimes (Prohibition, Prevention, And so forth) Act 2015.”
Initially, the defendants pleaded “not responsible” to the cost, however throughout proceedings on Monday, they modified their plea to “responsible.”
In response, prosecuting counsel R.A. Abdulrasheed urged the court docket to convict them accordingly.
In view of their pleas, prosecution counsel, R.A. Abdulrasheed, prayed the court docket to convict them accordingly.
Justice Osiagor subsequently sentenced every of the 9 convicts to 1 12 months imprisonment, efficient from the date of their arrest on December 10, 2024, with a tremendous of N1,000,000.
The choose additionally directed the Comptroller Normal of Immigration to make sure their repatriation to China inside seven days of the judgment.
Moreover, all objects recovered from the convicts on the time of their arrest, together with cellphones, laptop computer computer systems, and web routers, had been ordered forfeited to the Federal Authorities of Nigeria.
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