The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has arraigned a fake Director of the United States’ Federal Bureau of Investigation, Adamu Jiyaba.
The suspect was charged with one count of cybercrime, according to the EFCC in a statement on its official Facebook page on Tuesday.
The charge read, “That you, Adamu Yayaha Jiyaba, sometime in 2022 in Abuja within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court attempted to commit an offence to input a data that you are Robert S. Muller, the FBI Director, with the intention that such inauthentic data will be considered or acted upon and you thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 13 of the Cybercrime (Provision, Prevention, etc.) Act, 2015 and punishable under the same Section of the Act.”
He, however, pleaded not guilty to the charge and the judge subsequently adjourned the matter till October 26 and 27 2022 for commencement of trial.
The judge also remanded Jiyaba in the Lafia Correctional Centre.
