Embattled Nigerian musician, Naira Marley has been slammed with 11 charges by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC and will be charged to court on Monday, May 20, 2019.
Naira Marley was arrested last weekend in company of Omomniyi Temidayo also known as Zlatan Ibile and three others, who were released on bail yesterday.
The rising musician, Naira Marley currently risks seven years jail term if found guilty of the alleged credit card fraud, as Section 33 (2) which he was accused of breaching, reads: “Any person who uses: a counterfeit access device; an unauthorised access device; an access device issued to another person; resulting in a loss or gain commits an offence and shall be liable on conviction to imprisonment for a term of not more than seven years or a fine of not more than N5,000,000.00 and forfeiture of the advantage or value derived from his act.
The charges against him read in part, “That you, Azeez Adeshina Fashola, aka Naira Marley, and Raze (still at large), on or about the 11th day of December 2018, within the jurisdiction of this honourable court, conspired amongst yourselves to use Access card 42658840359191132 issued to persons other than you in a bid to obtain gain and you thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 27(1)(b) of the Cyber Crimes (Prohibition, Prevention etc) Act 2015 and punishable under Section 33(2) of the Same Act.
“That you, Azeez Adeshina Fashola, aka Naira Marley, and Raze (still at large), on or about the 10th day of May 2019, within the jurisdiction of this honorable court, with intent to defraud possessed, counterfeit card 4921819410257431 issued to Timea Fedorne Tatar and you thereby committed an offence contrary to and punishable under Section 33(9) of Cyber Crimes (Prohibition, Prevention etc) Act 2015.”
The charges with suit number FHC/L/178C/19 were filed before a Lagos State High Court.
Last month, the artiste went on social media to glorify internet fraud, also known as ‘Yahoo Yahoo’, asked the public to pray for fraudsters (Yahoo boys) and claimed they were the ones responsible for the circulation of money in Nigeria.