The Federal High Court in Lagos has ordered the temporary forfeiture of the sum of N280,555,010.65 discovered in the bank accounts of Invictus Oil and Gas Limited and Invictus Investment Limited.

Obinwanne Okeke aka Invictus is currently standing trial in the U.S over an alleged $11m cyber fraud, following his recent arrest by the FBI.

EFFC had told the court that the two firms were owned by Invictus, described as “a strong leader of a cyber crime syndicate that specialised in business e-mail compromise.”

Following an ex parte application by the EFCC on Monday, Justice Rilwan Aikawa made an order for the temporary forfeiture of the money.

EFCC lawyer, Rotimi Oyedepo, had told the court that he was assigned to investigate a request for information on Invictus and three others by the U.S Department of Justice, Office of the Legal Attache, US Consulate-General.

He added that the funds in the accounts were “reasonably suspected” to be proceeds of cyber crime and urged the judge to order its forfeiture to the Federal Government to prevent Okeke from dissipating same.

https://punchng.com/11m-cyber-fraud-lagos-court-orders-invictus-obis-n280m-forfeited/

Chai

Use it and build a school, name it "Invictus School of Cyber Security"... Will be the first of its kind....

In other words, Nigeria is N280m+ richer
The Government is working

Look at the end of the day yahoo and 419 scam isn't going to go anytime soon.. These guys are smart and intelligent at what they do and have been able to provide for themselves and develop the country in some way.. If they are not scamming Nigerians and only white people I suggest the government leave them alone and keep these arrest on a low key. I suggest the federal government leave them and let the FBI deal with them if they are dumb enough go to the USA. So many unemployment in the country how the hell are they suppose to survive? If there are job and the country is okay that a different story.. But the country is fucked_


Modified:

At the end of the day that 280 million naira entering the Nigerian economy.. I'm not gonna apologize for that..

Dude never learned the rules...

He said, "If you're gonna play the game, boy
You gotta learn to play it right
You've got to know when to hold 'em
Know when to fold 'em
Know when to walk away
And know when to run
You never count your money
When you're sittin' at the table
There'll be time enough for countin'
When the dealin's done
Every gambler knows
That the secret to survivin'
Is knowin' what to throw away
And knowin' what to keep
'Cause every hand's a winner
And every hand's a loser
And the best that you can hope for is to die
in your sleep ...~Kenny Rogers; the gambler

Too late for him now, aye! But not for you, you have still got a chance

What about the people/ organizations he duped, won't they get their money ( at least part of it) back, what will Buhari do with people's money?

See mullar

Awon inspire to aspire to perspire. Eleribu omo

Good move, crime doesnt pay. In other news

new meme alert

Interesting !!! He will return back to square zero.

Nigerian government always looking for a way to rip the masses. Did he scam Nigerian government? Or did FBI asked for help in getting back the money?

Come easy ... Go easy

This guy will crash when he is finally out

ok dem don table dis guy matter again

how much has gandollar, akpabio,obanikoro, etc forfeited

Ok

Hope say the keep some outside bank for him family members...

FG and gra gra, it will soon be added to APCs achievements

O boi.,..this is serious

Fortified to FG

A case of 'ole gbe ole gba' (thief steals it, thiief collects it)

Why not return the money to the original owner like Abacha loots.

Hero to zero...

Shun crime my people

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The downfall of a man, it's never the end of his life, job in the Bible went through this and came out strong. You will come out strong my Gee !!!

Kasted patapata

Had he knows?

He would have chosen another paths

What differencewill it make when we will not have the effect on our economy rather, it will end in VP Admin's(CoS) private pocket

So Yahoo Yahoo Invictus Obi scammed Americans and now Yahoo Yahoo Nigerian govt wants to use forfeiture to loot Yahoo Yahoo money

Hezbola:
Interesting !!! He will return back to square zero.

That’s not possible. It’s just temporary withdrawal, the government can’t hold it forever since the crime was not committed in her jurisdiction.

if you feel its proceeds fromscam, why not give it back to the people he scammed. why scam him .
this is nothing but scammer scamming another scammer