Justice D. E. Osiagor of the Federal Excessive Court docket in Ikoyi, Lagos, has convicted and sentenced 9 Chinese language nationals to 1 12 months imprisonment every for cyber-terrorism and web fraud, following their arrest in a serious sting operation by the Financial and Monetary Crimes Fee (EFCC).
Based on a press release issued by the anti-graft company on its official X deal with, the convicts, recognized as LI Dong, Deng Wei Qiang, Huang Bo, Xiong Zhen, Lai Rui Feng, Zhao Xiao Hui, Lui Hai Rong, Lui Gang, and Du Ji Feng, had been a part of a syndicate of 792 alleged cryptocurrency funding and romance fraud suspects apprehended on December 19, 2024.
The EFCC’s Lagos Zonal Directorate 2 charged the 9 people in February 2025 with one depend separate prices of cyber-terrorism and web fraud.
Initially pleading “not responsible,” the defendants reversed their pleas to “responsible” throughout a courtroom session on June 5, 2025.
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The cost acknowledged, “That you just, LI Dong, Deng Wei Qiang, Huang Bo, Xiong Zhen, Lai Rui Feng, Zhao Xiao Hui, Lui Hai Rong, Lui Gang and Du Ji Feng, someday in December, 2024 at Lagos, inside the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court docket, conspired amongst yourselves to commit an offence to wit: trigger to be accessed laptop system used for the aim of destabilising and destroying the economic system and social construction of Nigeria and thereby dedicated an offence opposite to Part 27 (1) (b) and punishable below Part 18(1) of the Cybercrimes (Prohibition, Prevention, and so forth) Act 2015.”
Prosecution counsel, Nnaemeka Omewa, urged the courtroom to convict and sentence them accordingly, a request supported by the defence counsel.
Justice Osiagor subsequently sentenced every defendant to 1 12 months in jail, efficient from their arrest date of December 10, 2025, and imposed a fantastic of N1,000,000 on every.
The courtroom additional ordered that the convicts be repatriated to their nation of origin inside seven days of finishing their sentences, as directed to the Comptroller Normal of Immigration.
Moreover, cellphones, computer systems, laptops, and routers seized through the EFCC’s “Eagle Flush Operation” had been forfeited to the Federal Authorities.
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