The Financial and Monetary Crimes Fee (EFCC), Lagos Zonal Directorate, on Tuesday, arraigned 11 Chinese language nationals and an organization, Genting Worldwide Co. Ltd., earlier than Justice C.J. Aneke of the Federal Excessive Courtroom in Ikoyi, Lagos.
The defendants Liu Ke Fan, Huang Hai Tao, Zhang Jian Feng, Wua Wang, Xiao Xin, Wang Hong Lin, Wu Yong An (a.ok.a. Zenga Niu), Chen Yuan (a.ok.a. Xiao Doa), Chen Dong Dong (a.ok.a. Cun Zhao), Weng Mao Rong (a.ok.a. A Xiang and Wang), and Xiong Wei (a.ok.a. Xiao Bai) had been arrested throughout a shock EFCC operation tagged “Eagle Flush Operation”, focusing on a syndicate of 792 alleged cryptocurrency and romance fraud suspects in Lagos.
The defendants confronted separate fees, together with cybercrimes, cyber-terrorism, possession of paperwork containing false pretences, identification theft, and offering false info to EFCC officers.
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The press assertion reads, “That you just, LUI KE FAN (a.ok.a. LINA, LIU CHEN), HUANG HAI TAO, ZHANG JIAN FENG, WU A WANG, and XIAO XIN, in December 2024, throughout the jurisdiction of this Honourable Courtroom, willfully induced pc programs to be accessed for destabilizing and destroying the economic system and social construction of Nigeria.
“You thereby dedicated an offence opposite to Part 18 of the Cybercrimes (Prohibition, Prevention, And so on.) Act, 2015, as amended in 2024, and Part 2 (3) of the Terrorism (Prevention and Prohibition) Act, 2022.”
All defendants pleaded not responsible. Prosecuting counsel M.Ok. Bashir requested trial dates and the defendants’ remand.
Justice Aneke adjourned the case to February 21 and March 7, 2025, for trial and ordered the defendants to be remanded on the Ikoyi Correctional Centre.
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