The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on September
21, 2015 arraigned one Amadi Jude before Justice Emmanuel Obile of
the Federal High Court Calabar, Cross River State on a 12-count charge
bordering on obtaining money by false pretence.
Amadi who goes by different pseudo names – Richard Smith, Mike
Anderson, Richard Darwin, Jackson Miller, and Morgan Abela, is alleged
to have collected N4,544,000 from a Swedish national, and promised to
marry her.
Count one reads: “That you, Amadi Jude Junior (alias Richard smith,
Mike Anderson, Richard Darwin, Jackson Miller, Morgan Abela) ‘m’,
John Ikechukwu Efughi (at large), and Farouk (at large), between May
2014 and January 2015 in Calabar, Cross River State, within the
jurisdiction of this honourable court did conspire among yourselves to
commit felony with it: obtaining money by false pretence and thereby
committed an offence contrary to section 8 (a) of the Advance Fee Fraud
and Other Fraud Related Offences Act, 2006 and punishable under
section 1 (3) of the same act.”
The accused person pleaded not guilty to all the charges. Justice Obile,
adjourned till October 12, 2015 and ordered the accused person be
remanded in prison custody.
Media & Publicity
23rd September, 2015