Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission Lagos Zonal command have arraigned another 11 Chinese nationals and a company before Justice Chukwujekwu Aneke of the Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos for fraud.
In a statement shared via the anti-graft agency’s X handle on Friday, EFCC said the suspects were arraigned on separate charges bordering on cyber-terrorism, cybercrimes, possession of documents containing false pretense, advance fee fraud, and identity theft.
According to EFCC, the accused are part of a group of 792 suspects connected to alleged cryptocurrency investment and romance fraud.
The statement partly reads: “The Lagos Zonal Directorate of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Friday, February 14, 2025, arraigned 11 more Chinese and a company, Genting International Co. Ltd, before Justice Chukwujekwu Aneke of the Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos for fraud.
“The defendants are: Li Niu, Xiao Qinyun, Fu Zheng Yang, Xiao Yi, Bei Bei Linde Jun, Li Hang, Huan Livo, Wang Wei Tong Mo Ying, Gao Yang, Zebin Chen and Yuan Zhibin.
“They are part of the 792-member syndicate of alleged cryptocurrency investment and romance fraud suspects arrested in Lagos on December 10, 2024, by officers of the EFCC in a surprise operation tagged “Eagle Flush Operation.”
“The suspects were arraigned on separate charges bordering on cyber-terrorism, cybercrimes, possession of documents containing false pretense, advance fee fraud and identity theft.”
The syndicate of 792 alleged cryptocurrency investment and romance fraud suspects were apprehended during a surprise raid on December 10, 2024, in Lagos, as part of an operation dubbed “Eagle Flush Operation” conducted by EFCC operatives.
