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Posted: Sat Mar 05, 2011 2:18 pm

Have a look here.

http://www.citizen.co.za/citizen/content/en/citizen/local-news?oid=177191&sn=Detail&pid=40&Nigerian--gets-22-year-sentence-for-419-fraud

I wonder how long he would have got if he was not married, albeit fraudulently.

Posted: Sat Mar 05, 2011 2:31 pm

Quote:

“He was the sole bread winner and the provider for his family,” the magistrate said.
He added that this was taken into account during sentencing.

Still 22 years is a very nice outcome........ Exclamation

here · Posted: Sat Mar 05, 2011 2:34 pm

Alan,

that is awesome, simply awesome
I will be grinning for the rest of the day

Posted: Sat Mar 05, 2011 2:57 pm

I have baited Naija bois who were operating out of South Africa. How wonderful it would be if this was one of them.

Posted: Sat Mar 05, 2011 4:22 pm

What percentage of the sentence to they serve there? Where I am from you serve half, not that 11 years would not be nice too Smile

Thanks for the info Alan.

Posted: Sat Mar 05, 2011 4:32 pm

Awesome news! Thanks for the heads-up, Alan -- it made my morning! Dancing Banana

Posted: Sat Mar 05, 2011 5:02 pm

Great news yet I am confused at what an "effective 22 years in prison" term is. The two ten year and two year terms are to be served consecutively so I take that to be a 10 year term.

here · Posted: Sat Mar 05, 2011 5:10 pm

am I right in thinking that a Nigerian might not have the most comfortable stay in a SA prison? would be a shame eh? Twisted Evil

Posted: Sat Mar 05, 2011 5:29 pm

Fantastic!!!
Thumbs up

Posted: Sat Mar 05, 2011 5:49 pm

@Connie. Taken from http://www.thefreedictionary.com/consecutively

Quote:

Consecutive adj. Following one after another without interruption

"Effective" twenty two years if he does the full term which he won't due to days worked, good behaviour etc. but still a good sentence. I would think that it must be a minimum of eleven years.

Result! Very Happy

Posted: Sat Mar 05, 2011 6:17 pm

Connie L. Gus wrote:

Great news yet I am confused at what an "effective 22 years in prison" term is. The two ten year and two year terms are to be served consecutively so I take that to be a 10 year term.

You're thinking of concurrently not consecutively.

Posted: Sat Mar 05, 2011 6:28 pm

Very nice article indeed nothing like the smell of lads rotting in a cell to make your day.

Posted: Sat Mar 05, 2011 8:38 pm

Fantastic news!

Posted: Sat Mar 05, 2011 9:15 pm

bait_my_hook wrote:

am I right in thinking that a Nigerian might not have the most comfortable stay in a SA prison? would be a shame eh? Twisted Evil

Not to be a downer, but according to a close friend who lives there. najas are generally not too ostracized in S.Africa, they generally hate Malawians, Zimbabweans, and Somalians. These 3 groups generally infringe on the day to day crime, small businesses as well as the more low paying menial jobs.

The prisons in South Africa are highly overcrowded, this guy will probably serve three years of that sentence (to answer everyone else's question on the duration).
*edit

Quote:

Article linked "The sentences for fraud and money laundering will run concurrently with the sentence on the Immigration Act contravention."

Thats a 10 at the same as another 10, and then the two, so a total o 12...but as stated before wll more likely be 3-5.

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Ill be looking for a scammer in SA 11 years from now...... Twisted Evil

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This part really got to me

“The court also heard Anyanyueze was from a stable family, a self-employed man, married with three children who depended on him.”

The man actually had no excuses with the exception of greed. Money matter more than his wife and kids.

The mugus have tried to portrays them as “poor” Africans just trying to get money from the west for past wrongs. This articles shows this is all PR. The mugus are just as greedy as anyone it the west.

Posted: Sun Mar 06, 2011 6:11 am

Thanks, Alan. One down and 250,000 to go.

Quote:

During the trial it was revealed that he had sent an e-mail to Nwasser stating that he had $10,5 million,

Maybe it's just me, but I've noticed that $10.5 million shows up more often that any other figure in scam emails. Perhaps some lads do market research and conclude that is what works best.

Posted: Sun Mar 06, 2011 10:44 am

Thanks for posting this.
It made my day lol.

However I was surprised that a Dr actually fell for this type of scam.

Posted: Sun Mar 06, 2011 12:30 pm

Hope they will treat him very well in the jail.

Posted: Mon Mar 07, 2011 7:00 am

Once he is discharged from prison, I am advised that he will be deported to Nigeria where the local police are waiting for him. Apparently, he has charges to answer in Nigeria as well, so I doubt he will do much scamming for quite some time. Twisted Evil

Posted: Mon Mar 07, 2011 7:12 am

Thanks for posting this and I wonder if these new laws will apply to him

Quote:

The Senate yesterday passed the Anti-Money Laundering bill, with a recommendation of a maximum jail term of 10 years, but not less than five years, for offenders, in addition to fines that may be applicable.

Some financial crimes analysts, however, warned that the maximum punishments prescribed in the bill may not discourage offenders, especially compared to what is obtainable in other crimes.

However, the passage of the bill brings Nigeria to the verge of totally fulfilling the requirements of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), established by the G7 Summit in Paris in 1989.

The new anti-money laundering bill will replace the 2004 version of same bill, which is said to lack the relevant provisions that will make it fully compliant with FATF recommendation.

Full compliance will, however, depend on the speed with which the House of Representatives passes its own version of the bill, which is already awaiting final reading in the House.

Thereafter, major discrepancies between the House and Senate version of the bill will be harmonised in a clean copy that will be adopted by both chambers and forwarded to the president, who appears to be eagerly waiting to sign it into law.

Raised bars

The bill passed by the Senate is slightly different from the version forwarded to the legislators by the president. It raised the bars for cash transaction that can be made outside a financial institution from N500, 000 and N2 million to N5 million and N10 million for individuals and corporate bodies respectively.

The Senate also raised the amount of international transfers that ought to be reported to government agencies from $2,000 to $10, 000 for individuals. It places a duty on bankers and other financial institutions to report international transfers of funds exceeding $10,000 to the Central Bank of Nigeria, from where the records can be accessed by security operatives.

Transportation of cash or negotiable instruments in excess of $10,000 or its equivalent by individuals in or out of the country shall be declared to the Nigerian Custom Service, section 3 of the act prescribed.

Offenders of this section “shall be liable upon conviction to forfeit not less than 25% of the undeclared funds or negotiable instrument or to imprisonment of not less than two years or both.”

The bill also obligates casinos and jewellers, as well as bankers, to properly identify its customers, report transactions exceeding the stated amounts to the appropriate government agency, and subsequently hold their records for at least five years.

Section 9 of the Act requires all banks to designate compliance officers at management level, branches and local offices, who are expected to feed a centralised data base with information.

The Central Bank of Nigeria is empowered by the bill to impose a penalty of not less than N1 million or the suspension of any licence issued to the financial institution or designated non financial institution for failure to comply with this section.

Meanwhile, the Act raised the amount of individual and corporate transactions that all financial institution are mandated to report to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) from N1 million and N5 million to N5 million and N10 million respectively.

Any financial institution or designated non financial institution that contravenes this provision of this section is liable to a fine of not less than N250, 000 and not more than N1 million for each day the contravention continues.

The Act prohibits numbered or anonymous accounts and empowers EFCC, CBN, and other regulatory authorities to place surveillance on suspected bank accounts, access to computer systems, and other records. It, however, denies them the right to tap suspects’ phone lines.

The bill covers offences including converting or transferring resources or properties derived directly from illicit traffic in narcotic drugs and psychotic substances, and participation in organised criminal group, racketeering, terrorism, terrorist financing, bribery and corruption, tax evasion, sexual exploitation, and others.

http://234next.com/csp/cms/sites/Next/News/Metro/Politics/5680874-146/ten-year_jail_term_for_money_launderers.csp

Posted up 02March 2011 in Nairaland.
http://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-614941.0.html

The original article quoted is from 02 March 2011.

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