Iwegue Ijeoma Ruth In ₦2.9B Flutterwave Fraud Scandal: Court Adjourns Trial To November 4
Five count Charge of conspiracy,stealing, fraudulent conversion,and advance fee fraud filed before a federal high court sitting in Lagos against a Lagos business woman IWEGUE IJEOMA RUTH by the Inspector General of Police has been adjourned till 4th of November,2025 for continuation of trial.
In a five count charge filed before the court by O/C Legal Lagos State Police Command Superintendent of Police Cardoso Yetunde, on behalf of Inspector General of Police, it was allegedly stated that IWEGUE IJEOMA RUTH ‘F’ and one other at large, on the 5th till 7th day of February 2023, at Plot.8, Providence Street, Lekki Phase 1 Lagos,within Lagos magisterial district ,did unlawfully logged into the financial portals of Merchant of Flutterware Technologies Solution Limited,and fraudulently transferred out the sum of Two Billion, Nine Hundred and Forty Nine Million, Five Hundred and Fifty Seven Thousand, Eight Hundred and Sixty Seven Naira Eighty Kobo (N2,949,557,867,80K) to several , her cohorts accounts being property of Merchant Flutterwave Technologies Solutions. Limited.
It was further alleged that IWEGUE IJEOMA RUTH same time and place unlawfully received the total sum of Eight Hundred and Twenty One Million, Three Hundred and Eighty Three Thousand, Slx Hundred and Ninety Kobo transferred into her accounts numbers; 540154325, 5400831481 respectively, property of Merchant Flutterwave Technologies Solutions Ltd, knowing same to be proceeds of crime.
The offences alleged to have been committed by the defendant are contrary to and punishable under sections 1,7(1) (2),8(a) of the advanced fee fraud and other related offences Act 2016.
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