Young Nigerian businessman, OBINWANNE OKEKE, who was arrested in the United States for alleged email fraud, has lost two hundred and thirty-five point five million naira to the Federal Government.
A Federal High Court in Lagos ordered the final forfeiture of the money kept in a bank account allegedly linked to OKEKE, who is popularly known as INVICTUS OBI.
Justice ABDULLAH LIMAN made the decision after waiting for more than eight months without anyone coming to the court to show the reason why the money should not be handed over to the government permanently.
Justice LIMAN had on March 23, 2020, ordered the interim forfeiture of the money following an application by the Lagos Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC.
EFCC spokesman, WILSON UWUJAREN, who confirmed the court decision in a statement, recalled that INVICTUS OBI was arrested by the FBI in 2019 over eleven-million-dollar internet fraud.
INVICTUS OBI pleaded guilty to computer-based fraud between 2015 and 2019 and was convicted for the alleged offences on June 19, 2020.