Gists By Drama Looms As Alleged
Fraudster Mompha
Provides EFCC Deadline
To Apologize
Ismaila Mustapha, an alleged fraudster
who’s popularly generally known as
Mompha, has requested the Economic and
Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to
apologize over an alleged libellous
publication.
Mompha made the demand in a letter
signed by his lawyer, Gboyega Oyewole.
The Instagram celeb warned the EFCC that
failure to conform inside 14 days will
trigger him to take authorized motion.
Oyewole mentioned the anti-graft
company’s spokesman, Wilson Uwujaren
made a libellous and defamatory assertion
about Mompha.
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The authorized practitioner insists his
shopper shouldn’t be a legal or fraudster
as painted within the publication and had
nothing to do with convicted Hamza
Koudeih (HK).
Final week, Justice Tijjani Garba Ringim
of the Federal Excessive Court docket in
Ikoyi, Lagos, convicted and sentenced
Koudeih, a Lebanese, to one-year
imprisonment.
Koudeih and Kayode Phillips have been
arraigned by the EFCC on November 28,
2019, earlier than Justice Muslim Hassan
on a 25-count bordering on conspiracy
and cash laundering.
Uwujaren described the duo and Mompha
as high-valued targets in Organised Cyber
Syndicate Community who engaged in
numerous cyber crimes.
In one of many counts, EFCC mentioned
Phillips (a.ok.a Voice of the King) and
Koudeih (a.ok.a. HK), in Might 2019,
transformed the mixture sum of
$7,069,000; £1 million and €80,000, a part
of proceeds of fraud.
Their offence was opposite to Sections 18
(a), 15 (2)(d) of the Cash Laundering
Prohibition Act, 2015 and punishable
underneath part 15(3) of the identical Act.
Uwujaren disclosed that Koudeih
approached the prosecution for a plea
discount and that EFCC, by way of its
counsel Rotimi Oyedepo, filed the
settlement with an amended cost on
September 8, 2021.
Delivering judgment, Justice Ringim
despatched Koudeih to jail however gave
him an choice N1 milllion tremendous.
He ordered forfeiture of HK’s N100
million in a checking account owned by
CHK Property Funding Ltd;
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Mercedes
Benz GLE43; two iPhones and an HP
Desktop pc to the Federal Authorities.
In his letter, Oyewole instructed the EFCC
that nowhere in any of the charges
towards Koudeih was Mompha talked
about nor discovered to be an
confederate.
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The lawyer knowledgeable the fee that
Mompha has by no means been convicted
of any crime in Nigeria despite the fact
that he faces expenses on offences
bordering on working a Bureau de Change
(BDC) with no licence.
“It’s embarrassing that an organisation of
EFCC’s stage would swiftly defame a
suspect, who to their data is being
prosecuted by the organisation and has
not been convicted of any crime
identified to legislation in Nigeria.
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“We want to request that the organisation
by way of its picture maker Wilson
Uwajaren retract the blanket assertion
towards our shopper forthwith and with
the identical publicity as was given to his
earlier press launch on the matter.
“In case you fail to heed the request of
our shopper inside 14 days of the receipt
of this letter, we will be constrained to
proceed to the courtroom of legislation
towards your organisation for exemplary
damages for injurious falsehood”, the
letter added.