Naira Marley vs EFCC: Case adjourned

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A Federal High court sitting in Lagos has adjourned the trial of Azeez Fashola popularly known as Naira Marley. The case has been adjourned to Dec 12, 2019.

The reason the case was adjourned was due to the absence of Mr. Olalejan Ojo (SAN) ,the defence counsel who was unavailable at the time of trial today.

Naira Marley who was arraigned by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) is facing an 11-count charge bordering on credit card fraud. 

Recall on Oct 24, 2019 EFCC found evidence on fraud on a macbook retrieved from Naira Marley’s apartment.

“During analysis, the cache file and history file revealed that the most frequently visited sites by the user of the computer includes arder007.org, Zuni.sa, nationwidecheckbalance.co.uk, ferunshop.net AMD cocoa.co.uk.”

“Analysis of the websites revealed that web 1 is where stolen card information is sold to intending fraudsters, web 2 is for stolen credit cards specifically for the UK, web 3 is an online website designed for UK card holders to check their balance wherever they are around the world, web 4 is a dark web meaning an underground tunnel in the internet where stolen credit card information are sold and traded, web 5 is an online shopping mall where members are given discounts for shopping from certain shops.”

“For the note file, two major files were discovered named .txt which contained about four credit card information belonging to four different personalities in the UK including one Nicole Louise. ”

“The second file is named selected BIN101.txt containing Bank Identification Number of European, American and Latin American banks.

“When we ran the BIN code search for the first six digits of the cards, it revealed they are Visa cards issued by Barclay’s bank, Sandander UK plc.”

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Buhari evidence in chief further revealed that an analysis allowed his team to identify “certain banks in the US, Europe and Asia with certain peculiarities, these are banks that they issue credit cards without pins based on the high level of trust, they allow a transaction of up to $12,000 in a swipe on pos.”

“Cards issued by those banks are card not required. All you need to execute a transaction is the card number and the Security number. ”

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