American Woman Tells Abuja Court How Nigerian Lover Defrauded Her Of $370,000 

The Economic and Monetary Crimes Commission (EFCC), is prosecuting Kingsley on a two-rely trace bordering on stealing, obtaining by unfounded pretence and prison possession of wrong paperwork to the tune of $370,000.

An American sufferer and the third Prosecution Behold (PW3), in the ongoing trial of Nwachi Chidozie Kingsley, has told Justice U.P Kekemeke of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), High Court, Abuja, how the defendant and his entire household allegedly conspired and defrauded her of the sum of $370,000.

The Economic and Monetary Crimes Commission (EFCC), is prosecuting Kingsley on a two-rely trace bordering on stealing, obtaining by unfounded pretence and prison possession of wrong paperwork to the tune of $370,000.

Indubitably one of the counts in opposition to him reads, “That you, Nwachi Chidozie Kingsley sometime in 2021 in Abuja, contained in the jurisdiction of the High Court of Federal Capital Territory, Abuja with intent to defraud received the total sum of $370,000 from Nicole Kierulff Sayers below the unfounded pretence of being a purported payment to finance a contract with Federal Ministry of Works and Housing with Contract No: RC/FGN/0275AN/20 issued to Nwachi Chidozie Kingsley, a claim which you knew to be unfounded and thereby dedicated an offence opposite to Part 1(1)(b) of Advance Rate Fraud and Varied Fraud Connected Offences Act, 2006 and punishable below Part 1(3) of the the same Act”.

On the resumed trial, Nicole Kierulff Sayers, an American and authorized legitimate by profession in the disclose of Oregon, United States, used to be led in proof by the prosecution counsel, Fatsuma Muhammad and the witness identified the defendant sooner than the court as the particular individual that despatched her messages on Facebook at some level of her birthday.

She mentioned, “I do know the defendant, the defendant messaged me on Facebook on my birthday and he mentioned he used to be a member of the the same spiritual organisation with me. We engaged in romantic discussions and phrases and we engaged in conversations that escalated into a relationship of a romantic form.”

Sayers further told the court that the defendant asked her for money to finance the award of a contract by the Ministry of Works and Housing, claiming that some men had been threatening his lifestyles if he didn’t provide money to stable the contract.

Sayers further mentioned, “Sooner than we met each assorted, he had asked me for money about eleven days sooner than, and his reason for soliciting for the money in accordance with him used to be for the award of a contract by the Federal Ministry of Works and Housing and alleged that some men had been threatening his lifestyles, if he didn’t provide the money to stable the contract.

“He asked me for wait on, and equipped me with the particulars of the contract and emblem and the entire recordsdata, I believed that attributable to I used to be in a weak disclose and I had developed an emotional connection with him.” 

Per her, the defendant told her that if she gave him $15,000, he would repay her inner forty five days and he or she believed him, and transferred the money to the defendant, with an instruction to repay her the money.

Narrating how she transferred the money and how she purchased to meet the household of the defendant,  Sayers mentioned, “I transferred the money the utilization of a money switch app, he got the money and inner one week, he asked me to affix him in a FaceTime Video alongside with his household. 

“This used to be his other folks’ home and his entire household used to be there, which included his sister Doris Nwachi, Kenneth Nwachi, sister-in-legislation Loveline, his father Chizom, his mom Victoria and his alleged daughter, Princess, who used to be then two years weak.”

Persevering with, Sayers mentioned, “One extra uncle of his, who I don’t reflect is a member of the household, I reflect is Bishop Ekeke, he and his mom’s brothers had been there. 

“He engaged me in video calls and messages and since of of the reputation that I’m in a position to glimpse from a distance that he had, he’s terribly very trendy in the Port Harcourt disclose and I notion that I could maybe maybe maybe belief him, so on the household assembly, each adult member that I met thanked me for saving the defendant’s alleged contract job and so, I didn’t heed that your entire household might maybe maybe maybe conspire in opposition to one harmless lady as myself.

The witness further told the court that she had despatched a total amount of $40,000 (Forty Thousand United States Bucks), even sooner than she came to Nigeria to meet the defendant.

“Sooner than I came to Nigeria, I despatched to him approximately $40,000 (Forty Thousand US Bucks), and we had persevered conversation about him paying encourage lustrous that issues will change. 

“I arrived in Abuja in unhurried March 2022, and I spent two weeks with the defendant and despite his assurances that he would no longer trip away me alone for prolonged courses, he left me alone on endless times and I stayed at his rented home in Solar Metropolis, Abuja. 

“However attributable to I needed to fetch my money; I persevered the relationship with him. Several months later, he asked for extra money, a minimal of 125 transactions. 

“The reason he gave me drop into several categories corresponding to clinical contingencies, surgical procedures, malaria remedy and assorted categories, corresponding to affords on the authorities contracts attributable to he did not have the money for the authorities. He ragged emotional manipulation and gaslighting.

“The entire amount, and to my easiest estimate, used to be successfully over $200,000 (Two Hundred Thousand Bucks), in a duration of twelve months, January to December. On just a few times, he claimed he tried to wire me money at one specific time. 

“He produced a file that he claimed used to be a bank file and that he made an strive to wire me $10,000 (Ten Thousand Bucks).

“He claimed the bank intercepted it, attributable to he mentioned the bank claimed it used to be an tried misappropriation of authorities funds, so he chanced on himself in penal advanced. 

“He asked me to bail him out and I did, and all another time he asked me to construct provisions for bribes to pay for the prison case, attributable to he tried to misappropriate authorities funds

“Finally in December, after pleading and begging, and showing him my desperation, he agreed to wire extra money to me and asked for the bank particulars and he mentioned ‘I will attain it the next day’. 

“Few days later, I asked him, did you wire the money to me and he mentioned no. That used to be after I realized that I will by no approach glimpse a penny from him all another time,” she mentioned.

Thereafter, the topic used to be adjourned till November 7 for continuation of trial.