An American lady, Nicole Kierulff Sayers, has narrated to the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Excessive Court docket Abuja how she was defrauded of $370,000 by a suspected Nigerian web fraudster, Nwachi Chidozie Kingsley.
Sayers, who lives in Oregon, United States, narrated her ordeal as a witness for the Financial and Monetary Crimes Fee (EFCC) in Kingsley’s ongoing trial earlier than Justice Peter Kekemeke on Wednesday, July 3.
This was disclosed in a press release on Friday by EFCC spokesman, Dele Oyewale, saying the suspect is being prosecuted on a two-count cost bordering on stealing, acquiring by false pretence and legal possession of pretend paperwork.
Led in proof by the prosecution counsel, Fatsuma Muhammad, the American recognized the suspect earlier than the court docket as the person who despatched her messages on Fb throughout her birthday.
“I do know the defendant, the defendant messaged me on Fb on my birthday and he stated he was a member of the identical religious organisation with me,” she was quoted as saying.
“We engaged in romantic discussions and phrases and we engaged in conversations that escalated right into a relationship of a romantic sort.”
Sayers additional informed the court docket that the defendant requested her for cash to finance the award of a contract by the Ministry of Works and Housing, claiming that some males had been threatening his life if he failed to offer cash to safe the contract.
“Earlier than we met one another, he had requested me for cash about eleven days earlier than, and his purpose for asking for the cash, based on him, was for the award of a contract by the Federal Ministry of Works and Housing and alleged that some males had been threatening his life, if he didn’t present the cash to safe the contract.
“He requested me for assist, and provided me with the small print of the contract and emblem and all the data, I believed that as a result of I used to be in a susceptible state and I had developed an emotional reference to him,” she added.
In keeping with her, Kingsley informed her that if she gave him $15,000, he would repay her inside 45 days and she or he believed him, and transferred the cash to the defendant, with an instruction to repay her the cash.
She additional the narrated how she transferred the cash and the way she acquired to fulfill the household of the defendant.
Sayers stated, “I transferred the cash utilizing a cash switch app, he obtained the cash and inside one week, he requested me to hitch him in a FaceTime Video along with his household. This was his mother and father’ home and his whole household was there, which included his sister, Doris Nwachi, Kenneth Nwachi, sister-in-law Loveline, his father Chizom, his mom Victoria, and his alleged daughter, Princess who was then two years previous.”
The matter was, thereafter, adjourned until November 7, 2024, for continuation of trial.
