{"id":77562,"date":"2025-07-17T19:26:24","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T19:26:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=77562"},"modified":"2025-07-17T19:26:24","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T19:26:24","slug":"court-jails-15-chinese-for-cybercrime-in-lagos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2025\/07\/17\/court-jails-15-chinese-for-cybercrime-in-lagos\/","title":{"rendered":"Court jails 15 Chinese for cybercrime in Lagos"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.pmnewsnigeria.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/chinese-fraudsters-636x504.jpg\" alt=\"chinese fraudsters\" \/><\/p>\n<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\">\n<div>A Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos, has convicted and sentenced 15 Chinese nationals for offences bordering on cyberterrorism and internet fraud.<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), through its Lagos Zonal Directorate 1, secured the convictions before Justices Ayokunle Faji and Dehinde Dipeolu.<\/p>\n<div class=\"vdbugn vdbugn-post-inline vdbugn-float-center vdbugn-align-center vdbugn-column-1 vdbugn-clearfix no-bg-box-model\">\n<div id=\"vdbugn-187519-1284465603\" class=\"vdbugn-container vdbugn-type-custom_code \" data-adid=\"187519\" data-type=\"custom_code\">\n<p class=\"vdbugn-caption vdbugn-caption-below\">According to the statement released via its X handle on Thursday 17 July, the EFCC said the convicts were arraigned on separate charges related to their involvement in sophisticated cybercrime and internet-related offences.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The convicts are Ling Yang, Xiao Hong Will, Wang Zheng Ming, Wang Jia Qi, Yang Sheng, Peng Sen Lin, and Guo Xiao Fei, Chen An Shun, Zhao Ying Bin, Yu Zi (also known as Wei Xue Huan), Zhang Yang, Wang Zhi Cheng, and Lu Yubo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>A Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos, has convicted and sentenced 15 Chinese nationals for offences bordering on cyberterrorism and internet&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":77563,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-77562","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Chinese-fraudsters-Lagos.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77562"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77564,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77562\/revisions\/77564"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}