A businessman, Khareem Oluwaseyi, was on Wednesday arraigned before an Ikeja High court by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, for allegedly impersonating the U.S. Attorney General, Jeff Sessions, with intent to defraud people online.
He is facing a five-count charge of possession of fraudulent documents, to which he pleaded not guilty.
The Prosecuting Counsel for the EFCC, Mr. A.M. Ocholi, told the court that Oluwaseyi committed the offences on June 29, in Lagos.
“The defendant goes by the alias Jeff Sessions and using the moniker, he had created an e-mail address [email protected].
“He had in his possession an e-mail correspondence containing false pretence titled: “Grant Money,” which he sent from that e-mail address to [email protected], the e-mail address of an unsuspecting victim.
“Oluwaseyi had in his possession another e-mail correspondence titled: “Grant” which he sent from his Jeff Sessions e-mail address to [email protected] which he knew contained false pretence.
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“He also had sent an e-mail: titled “no subject” to [email protected], knowing same to be false,” Ocholi said.
The prosecutor further told the court that in addition to the e-mail correspondences, Oluwaseyi was also allegedly nabbed in connection with a fraudulent document titled: “National Endowment for Humanities.”
Mr. Ocholi said that the offences contravened Sections 1(3) and 68(b) of the Advance Fee Fraud and Other Fraud Related Offences Act, 2006.
Following the not guilty plea by the accused, Justice Oyindamola Ogala, the vacation judge, ordered he be remanded in prison and adjourned the case to September 10, for hearing of his bail application.
