Man Sentenced to 50 hours Community Service for Possession of Fraudulent Documents In Lagos
A State High Court sitting in Ikeja, Lagos under Justice O.A. Fadipe has convicted and sentenced one Abdulrahman Murphy Usifo to 50 hours community service for possession of fraudulent documents.
Disclosed by the EFCC on its X(former Twitter) page on Friday, Usifo was arraigned by the Lagos Zonal Directorate 2 of its Okotie-Eboh, Ikoyi branch, Lagos, on a one -count charge bordering on possession of fraudulent documents and cybercrimes.
According to the report Usifo was arraigned on May 27, 2025 after a Gmail account was found on him alongside other documents.
The prosecution counsel stated that the EFCC acted on an intelligence report alleging a case of computer-related fraud against the defendant.
After confirming the report, the commission carried out a sting operation at Festac Town and arrested the defendant.
The prosecution counsel, I.G.Akhanolu, further told the court that an iPhone 15 pro max and HP laptop was found on the suspect during the raid.
Usifo was taken to the EFCC office at 7A, Okotie-Eboh Road, Ikoyi where he voluntarily confessed to being part of an online benefit scam, wherein he represented himself as one Mr. Attilio Traldi and benefited $500.
Further forensic examination of his devices revealed that he was in possession of fraudulent documents under the name mentioned above; which he printed from his iphone 15 and Hp laptop.
The prosecution also revealed that the defendant restituted the sum of N500,000 by tendering a bank draft and tendered his extrajudicial statements, iPhone 15 pro max, Hp laptop , Bank draft , and forensic investigation documents as an evidence against him.
The court admitted and marked them as exhibits.
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Justice Fadipe after hearing the charge against the defendant which read; “ABDULRAHMAN MURPHY USIFO, on or about the 27th May, 2025 in Lagos, within the Judicial Division of this Honourable Court, with a dishonest intent, had in your possession Gmail account titled “Remittance of Funds”, wherein you represented yourself as Mr. Attilio Traidi, and other related documents for an online benefit, printed from your HP-Laptop, which you knew or ought to know to be false thereby committed an offence Possession of fraudulent documents contrary to Section 320 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2015. “
The defendant pleaded guilty to the charge against him and the Judge convicted and sentenced him to 50 hours community service to be supervised by a Correctional Centre.
The Judge also ordered that the convict be registered in the Public Offenders Register.
He was also ordered to sign an undertaking with the EFCC never to commit any financial crime within and outside the shores of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
The Judge also ordered that the bank draft, IPhone 15 pro max mobile phone and HP laptop computer recovered from him be forfeited to the Federal Government of Nigeria.