According to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), certain Chinese nationals are attempting to undermine the Federal Republic of Nigeria’s social and economic order.
According to reports, the anti-graft office charged a Chinese woman named Bei Bei Linde Jun and her business of hiring a number of young Nigerians for identity theft and other computer-related fraud.
On Friday, the EFCÇ arraigned 11 Chinese on various accusations related to identity theft, advance fee fraud, possession of documents with false pretenses, cyber-terrorism, and cybercrimes, including Linde Jun.
They were among the 792 members of the gang of suspected cryptocurrency investment and romantic fraud suspects who were apprehended in Lagos on December 10, 2024, by EFCC officers in an unexpected operation known as the “Eagle Flush Operation.”
Fu Zheng Yang, Xiao Yi, Li Hang, Huan Livo, Wang Wei Tong Mo Ying, Gao Yang, Zebin Chen, Yuan Zhibin, Li Niu, and Xiao Qinyun are the other defendants.
The charge against Jun is as follows: “That you, BEI BEI LINDE JUN, (Female), adult, and GENTING INTERNATIONAL CO. LIMITED, sometime between November 28, 2024, and December 10, 2024, at No. 7, Oyin Jolayemi Street, Victoria Island, Ikoyi, Lagos, within the jurisdiction of the Federal High Court of Nigeria, with intent to defraud, willfully caused to be accessed, computer systems which were organized to destabilize the social and economic structure of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, when you covertly hired and procured several Nigerian youths for identity theft and other computer-related fraud, and thereby committed an offense, in violation of and subject to punishment under Section 18 of the Cybercrimes (Prohibition, Prevention, Etc.,) Act, Laws of the Federation of Nigeria, 2015, As amended.
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“That you, LI NIU, occasionally in 2024 in Lagos within the jurisdiction of this Honorable Court, had in your possession documents where you represented yourself as ‘LISA’ and that you are a female from Singapore, are representation which you knew or ought to have known is false, and for that reason you committed an offense contrary to Section 6 of the Advance Fee Fraud and Other Fraud Related Offences Act, 2006 and punishable under Section 1(3) of the same Act,” according to Niu’s charge.
Following their pleas of “not guilty” to the allegations when they were read to them, the prosecution’s attorneys, Ahmed Yerima, F.S. Mohammed, A.M. Dambuwq, and N.C. Mutfwang, requested a trial date and the defendants’ custody in a correctional facility.
The defendants were ordered to be held in the Ikoyi and Kirikiri Correctional Centers after Justice Aneke postponed the trial until March 14 and 21, 2025.
