A Lagos court has sentenced 18 foreign nationals, including 15 Chinese, 2 Filipinos, and 1 Pakistani, to prison for cyberterrorism and internet fraud.
The defendants were found guilty of engaging in illicit online activities, prompting the court to hand down prison sentences.
The Lagos Zonal Directorate 1 of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Thursday June 19 and Friday, June 20, 2025, secured the conviction.
They appeared before Justices Chukwujekwu Aneke, Ayokunle Faji and Yellim Bogoro of the Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos.
The commission gave the names of the suspects as Peng Li Huan, Zhang Jin Rong, He Kun, Rachelle Cabalona, Caselyn Pionela, Guo Long Long, Zhang Hua Zhai, Lin Hao Bo, Chen Fusheng, Chen Dong Dong, Wang Gong Lin, Pan Cai Yu, Huang Ren Jian, Zhang Xiao Lei, Khurram Shahzad, Chen Yuan, Wu Yong An and Chen Xin.
The suspects were arraigned on separate charges bordering on cyber-terrorism and internet fraud.They all pleaded “guilty” to the charges when they were read to them.
In view of their pleas, the prosecution counsel, Spiff Owede, Bilkisu Buhari-Bala, Chinenye Okezie, Ebuka Okongwu, B.M Isah and Nambam Mutfwang respectively prayed the court to convict the defendants and also order the forfeiture all the exhibits recovered from them.
The judges found them guilty of the charges and convicted them accordingly.
All the convicts were sentenced to one year imprisonment, with a fine of N1,000,000.00 (One Million Naira).
The judge also ordered that upon completion of their sentences, the Comptroller-General of the Nigeria Immigration Service, NIS, should ensure that they are repatriated to their country of origin within seven days.
The judge also ordered that the items recovered from them be forfeited to the Federal Government of Nigeria.
The convicts are among the 792 suspects arrested by operatives of the EFCC for alleged cyber-terrorism. They were charged to court and jailed.
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