Iyen bags five years imprisonment for forgery

Justice M.B. Idris of the Federal High Court, Lagos has convicted and sentenced Peter Nosakhire Iyen to five years imprisonment for forgery and counterfeiting.
The convict, Peter Nosakhire Iyen, and Johan Anderson (still at large) were arraigned by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on January 26, 2006 on a 12-count charge of forgery and counterfeiting of United States Postal Service’s Money Order, an offence punishable under Section 1(2) (a) of the Miscellaneous Offences Act Cap. M17 Laws of the Federation of Nigeria, 2004.
The convict pleaded not guilty to all the charges preferred against him and was remanded at the Ikoyi Prison since 2006.
He was consequently convicted by Justice Idris on all the 12 counts preferred against him.
He was sentenced to five years imprisonment on each of the counts but the sentence will run concurrently.
The court also ordered that all the forged International Money Orders be destroyed.
Iyen’s journey to prison began on December 16, 2005, when he was arrested by operatives of the EFCC for fraudulently forging United States Money Orders and also conspired to export same from Nigeria to the United States. He also fraudulently induced one Grabb Gregory (aka Oleg Stromsky) of Hyo Eastern Province, United States to buy the said counterfeited Money Orders with serial numbers 70381358876, 7408139887 and 70381798875.