Court jailed man 77 years for disguising like ghost to defraud man of N20m

Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, in their bid to abolish corruption and fraudulence, secured the conviction of Mohammed Yusuf in a Federal High Court in Gusau, Zamfara State, on November 6, 2017.

The convict was sentenced to 7 years imprisonment on each of the eleven count charge preferred against him by the EFCC, making it 77 years jail term all together.

Yusuf had defrauded one Ya’u Mohammed to the tune of N20m between November 2012 and January 2013 in a classic advance fee fraud scheme.

Posing as a ‘ghost’ named ‘Asmau’, based in Niger Republic, the convict was able to convince the complainant through a phone call into believing that the mystery female voice had powers to establish schools and mosques to propagate Islam but needed a human vessel through which this could be achieved.

The complainant gullibly fell into his trap after threats that he either obeys the voice of the spirit or die. Subsequently, the convict began to extort his victim and used the money to buy exotic cars and acquire a mansion in red bricks area of Kano state. The sentences are to run concurrently from the day of his arrest.