The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has caught six undergraduates who were in possession of scanned logo of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and that of the US Navy.
The anti-graft agency also said the convicts were caught with documents issued by the US Court of Appeal for the Armed Forces, purportedly signed by Lieutenant General T. T. Luis Rodulf, and US Army Judge, Fort Knox, among others.
The News Agency of Nigeria is reporting that the EFCC prosecution counsel, George Chia-Yakua, informed the court that the suspects were rounded up in June.
Yakua said the offence contravened the provisions of Sections 33 of the Cybercrime Prohibition & Prevention Act, 2015 and section 6 of the Advance Fee Fraud and Other Fraud Related Offences Act, 2006.
However, due to the plea bargain agreements separately entered between the convicts and the EFCC, the original charges were replaced with the amended charges as presented before the court on Friday.
A Federal High Court judge sitting in Abuja on Friday convicted the six undergraduates for internet-related offences.
The vacation judge, Justice Nkeonye Maha, sentenced Quarshie Nnamdi, Emmanuel Ogbole, Charles Iwu, Nuhu Usman, Ademoyegu Samson and Adunmo Sesan.
Maha convicted and sentenced them to varying terms ranging from three to six months imprisonment, with option of fines N300,000 after they pleaded guilty to all the charges preferred against them by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission.
While sentencing the convicts, the judge ordered them to forfeit some of the items, which include laptops and phones among others recovered from them during investigations to the Federal Government.
Maha also ordered that the convicts to sign an undertaking to be of good behaviour and never to be involved in EFCC case or any other form of fraud within and outside the country, adding that failure to comply will attract judicial sanctions.
She ordered the convicts to refund all the monies fraudulently obtained from their victims.
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