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Fredrick Leonard’ bags one-year imprisonment over N104m love scam
A Federal High Court sitting in Kuje, Abuja has sentenced one Aiosa Kelvin Orhue aka Fredrick Leonard to one-year imprisonment for defrauding one Cheryldene Cook of over N104million.
The convict was arraigned by operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on a three count charge bordering on love scam.
One of the counts reads, “that you, Aiosa Kelvin Orhue (aka Fredrick Leonard) sometime in 2021, at Abuja within the jurisdiction of the Honourable Court, by false pretence and with intent to defraud obtained the sum of N104,000,000 only from one Cheryldene Cook, that you are one Frederick Leonard who is in love with her and you made her to believe that you are going to marry her which you knew to be false and you thereby committed an offence contrary to and puni§hable under Sections 1 (1)(a) and 1 (3) of the Advance Fee Fraud and Other Fraud Related Offences Act, 2006 respectively”.
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