, has been sentenced to 10 years’ imprisonment by a Sokoto State High Court.
It was gathered that Abdullateef, while presenting himself as a United States Army General serving in war-torn Syria, hacked into theThe EFCC said the convict was arrested alongside six others on May 25, 2021, at Badariya in Birnin Kebbi metropolis by operatives of the Department of State Services for involvement in Internet fraud, adding that the other suspects had been prosecuted and convicted on separate charges.
Justice Malami Dogondaji convicted and sentenced Abdullateef to 10 years’ imprisonment with the option of N200,000 fine. The charge read, “That you, Murtala Abdullateef, sometime in May 2021 in Sokoto, within the judicial division of the High Court of Justice of Sokoto State, dishonestly hacked into theaccounts of several European women with intent to defraud them of their hard-earned money, wherein you represented yourself to them as a General in the US Army on a peacekeeping mission in Syria, and you thereby attempted to commit the offence of cheating contrary to Section 58 of the Sokoto State Penal Code Law,...
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