{"id":2096,"date":"2019-11-22T10:22:13","date_gmt":"2019-11-22T10:22:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?p=2096"},"modified":"2019-11-22T10:22:15","modified_gmt":"2019-11-22T10:22:15","slug":"court-orders-invictus-obi-to-forfeit-280-5-million-to-federal-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?p=2096","title":{"rendered":"Court Orders Invictus Obi to Forfeit #280.5 Million to Federal Government"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A\nFederal High Court Sitting in Lagos has ordered the final forfeiture of\nN280.5million \u201cwarehoused\u201d in the bank accounts of Invictus Oil and Gas Limited\nand Invictus Investment Limited alleged to have been owned by Obinwanne Okeke\n\u201ca strong leader of a cybercrime syndicate specialized in business email\ncompromise.\u201d<br>\n<br>\nJustice\nRilwan Aikawa made the order of final forfeiture on Thursday.<br>\n<br>\nThe order\nof the court was as a result of the submissions by the EFCC Legal officer\nRotimi Oyedepo<br>\n<br>\nOkeke,\npopularly known as Invictus, is standing trial in the United States of America\nover an alleged $11.5m cyber fraud.<br>\n<br>\nThe\n31-year-old Nigerian, was in 2016 celebrated by Forbes as one of Africa\u2019s most\noutstanding 30 entrepreneurs under the age of 30 and described by the magazine\nas \u201cproof that there is hope for Africa.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Federal High Court Sitting in Lagos has ordered the final forfeiture of N280.5million \u201cwarehoused\u201d in the bank accounts of Invictus Oil and Gas Limited and Invictus Investment Limited alleged to have been owned by Obinwanne Okeke \u201ca strong leader of a cybercrime syndicate specialized in business email compromise.\u201d Justice Rilwan Aikawa made the order [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2055,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[3,14],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Court Orders Invictus Obi to Forfeit #280.5 Million to Federal Government &raquo; 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