₦airaland Forum

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC Kaduna Zonal Office has arraigned one Joseph Adigizi Anthony before Justice Mallong Peter of the Federal High Court sitting in Kaduna, Kaduna State for a N50 million fraud.

His journey to the dock began when the Kaduna office of the EFCC received a petition alleging that he defrauded members of the public using a business proposal, in which he lured them to invest in Bitcoin through a platform called Bitworld Centre. He promised them good returns on their investment.

A petitioner had alleged that she sold her properties and collected loan from a Microfinance Bank to raise the sum of N1,739,000 (One Million Seven Hundred and Thirty Nine Thousand Naira), which the defendant directed her to pay into his personal bank accounts. She later discovered that the business was a fraud. However, efforts to recover her money proved abortive.

He was on April 30, 2019 charged with a five-count charge.

One of the counts reads: "That you, Joseph Adigizi Anthony, sometimes in 2018 at Kaduna within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court did with intent to defraud through your personal Guaranty Trust Bank and Access Bank accounts over N50,000,000 (Fifty Million Naira) credit turnover as collective investment deposits from one Salome Ambi Mamman and other members of the public by falsely accepting deposits for an unregister business venture with the Security and Exchange Commission of Nigeria called "BITWORLD" using financial proposal documents serving as a "Trainer Bitclub Advantage" and thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 1(1)(a) of the Advance Fee Fraud and Other Fraud Related Offence Act, 2006 and punishable under Section 1(3) of the Same Act."

He pleaded "not guilty" to the charges.

Prosecuting counsel, S.H. Sa'ad urged the court to fix a date for the commencement of trial while he prayed the defendant be remanded in prison.

"We are ready to commence with the trial, and we have two witnesses already in court," Sa'ad said.




Source: http://www.ngg.ng/2019/05/02/efcc-arraigns-businessman-for-n50m-bitcoin-fraud/

No time
Man must pick

See his fraudulent face self..

Joseph Adigizi Anthony we know them

lol


this one no near anything bitcoin


de just dey collect money put for account take off

thats how NL ended up branding crypto as a scam when guys like CZ (industry people will know) make 100s of millions of dollars per annum from crypto

or should i say the IEOs that raise millions in minutes

here we dey do yahoo, for 2005 benz dey make noise, when the real money is being made in Asia

Awon PH and Gh gang

Yoruba people eh

ok

We are on our way to the crime scene..I hear say na them again

I thought Bitcoin is a legit business, let me contact my chairman Bnaire, I think he needs to educate EFFC better.

they will be disturbing us on nairaland

Reading.

Dat name sound familiar... If u knw, u knw

Member of the NSA

Nigerian scammers Association.

I was scammed too in Lagos with this stupid bitclub advantage

Remember to blame those investors too

guy

themosthigh:
They will just convinct this man for nothing. Bitcoin prices fell, not his fault. Many people thought that prices will keep rising forever. It didn’t and like everyone, you have to accept your loss.

How many of your old-brained and clueless judges even know what bitcoin means? That's how one of them remanded an innocent guy in EFCC custody on the strength of the very obnoxious charge of having "illegal" VPN application on his device.

Same method GeneX used to defraud their investors.

Johnsonodd55:
See below

We are talking about one fraud and you are bringing another.

themosthigh:
They will just convinct this man for nothing. Bitcoin prices fell, not his fault. Many people thought that prices will keep rising forever. It didn’t and like everyone, you have to accept your loss.

How real is bitcoin ? Learnt it's like mmm