14 Chinese citizens condemned to Nigeria for cyber-terrorism, …- Theconclaveng

A high federal court of Ikoyi, Lagos, on Friday, sentenced and sentenced 14 Chinese citizens for their involvement in cyber-terrorism and in the fraud on the Internet.

According to the commission for economic and financial crimes (EFCC), the prisoners were part of a computer crime union discovered during a stinging operation conducted in Lagos on December 19, 2024.

The operation led to the arrest of 792 suspicions presumably linked to investments in cryptocurrency and romantic scams aimed at the Nigerians.

The 14 people were accused in front of judge Daniel Osiagor with various accusations of cyber-terrorism and online fraud.

One of the accusations accused a suspicion, on Zong Gen, of deliberately accessing IT systems to destabilize the economy and social structure of Nigeria.

Although the defendants initially declared themselves not guilty, they later changed their faulting reason during the session of the Court of Friday.

The pursuit of the TJ Banjo councils and Mrs. Owde asked the Court to condemn the defendants accordingly.

Without any objection from the defense, judge Osiagor sentenced each of the 14 to one year prisons with an option of a 1 million fine.

The judge also ordered that, after completing the prison period or the payment of the fine, the prisoners were deported to China within seven days under the supervision of the immigration service of Nigeria.

To all the articles recovered by them during their arrest were ordered loses the federal government.

The condemned includes: on Zong Gen, Li Zhong Chang, Chen Gui Ping, Li Xiang Long, San Feng Zhang, Jia Yang, Zhi Hao, Liu Chuang, Yu Hai Ging, Zhao Xiao Liang, Dai Li, Tao Kun, Mao Buy and Zhao Zi Cheng.

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