EFCC Arraigns ISD Technology, Three Others For N36. 8m Fraud

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Lagos Zonal Office, on Wednesday, February 12, 2020, arraigned four suspected fraudsters, Richard Ironbar Edemdem, Samuel Okpapi, Nelson Ojovbo, Bamigbade Olushola and a company, ISD Technology Limited.

They were arraigned before Justice Muhammad Liman of the Federal High Court, Ikoyi, Lagos, on a three- count charge bordering on felony and stealing to the tune of N36, 837, 438.20 (Thirty Six Million, Eight Hundred and Thirty-seven Thousand, Four Hundred and Thirty-eight Naira, Twenty Kobo).

One of the counts reads: “That you, Richard Ironbar Edemdem, Samuel Okpapi, Nelson Ojovbo, Bamigbade Olushola and ISD Technology Ltd and and one Shola (Still at large), sometime in 2017, in Lagos within the Jurisdiction of this honourable court, conspired among yourselves to commit a felony to wit: Tampering with critical mobile Telecommunications network system and thereby committed an offence contrary to Sections 27 (1)(b) and 10 of the Cybercrimes (Prohibition, Prevention etc) Act, 2015 and punishable under the same section of the Act.”

The defendants pleaded not guilty to the charge preferred against them by the EFCC.