Fake FBI commander and partner charged by EFCC with $2.8 million wire fraud.

Ijeboi Dennis and Obade Monday were charged with wire fraud on Thursday, November 17 by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). Before Justice Abubakar Baba Shani of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) High Court in Apo, Abuja, the men were charged. According to the authorities, Monday claimed to be a Diplomat Director and Dennis (also known as Andrew Tran Huynh) claimed to be a commander of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). EFCC charges In addition to the conspiracy, the defendants are charged with deception in order to collect $2,822,860. The EFCC claimed that while acting as American doctors stranded in Afghanistan, they conned Holly Ngo, a citizen of the United States. Four men were charged by the government Dennis, Monday, Omage Emmanuel Omole, and Ekhoguagbon Osazuwa Patrick, also known as Patrick Paul, who is still at large (deceased). The five charges are narrated how they perpetrated the alleged fraud between January 2021 and September 2021 in Abuja. The offence violates Section 1(1)(a) of the Advance Fee Fraud and Other Fraud Related Offences Act,2006, and is punishable under Section 1(3) of the same Act. After they pleaded not guilty, prosecution counsel Christopher Mshelia prayed to the court to set a date for trial and remand them. Their lawyer, S. T. Sanni requested that Dennis and Monday remain in EFCC custody pending the determination of their bail application. But Justice Baba Shani remanded the defendants at the Suleja Correctional Facility and adjourned till January 11, 2023.