EFCC Uncovers Alleged Chinese Conspiracy to Disrupt Nigeria’s Economy

Some Chinese nationals have been charged by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) with attempting to undermine the social and economic order of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
According to reports, a Chinese woman named Bei Bei Linde Jun and her business were charged by the anti-graft office with hiring a number of young Nigerians for identity theft and other computer-related fraud.
Linde Jun was one of 11 Chinese who were arraigned by the EFCÇ on Friday on various accusations related to identity theft, advance fee fraud, possession of documents with false pretenses, cybercrimes, and cyberterrorism.

In a surprise operation known as the “Eagle Flush Operation,” EFCC officers detained 792 members of a gang of suspected cryptocurrency investment and romantic fraud suspects in Lagos on December 10, 2024.
Lu Niu, Xiao Qinyun, Fu Zheng Yang, Xiao Yi, Li Hang, Huan Livo, Wang Wei Tong Mo Ying, Gao Yang, Zebin Chen, and Yuan Zhibin are the other defendants.

The charge against Jun is as follows: “That you, BEI BEI LINDE JUN, (Female), adult, and GENTING INTERNATIONAL CO. LIMITED, sometime between November 28, 2024, and December 10, 2024, at No. 7, Oyin Jolayemi Street, Victoria Island, Ikoyi, Lagos, within the jurisdiction of the Federal High Court of Nigeria, with intent to defraud, willfully caused to be accessed, computer systems which were organized to destabilize the social and economic structure of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, when you covertly hired and procured several Nigerian youths for identity theft and other computer-related fraud, and thereby committed an offense, in violation of and subject to punishment under Section 18 of the Cybercrimes (Prohibition, Prevention, Etc.,) Act, Laws of the Federation of Nigeria, 2015 As amended.

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“That you, LI NIU, occasionally in 2024 in Lagos within the jurisdiction of this Honorable Court, had in your possession documents where you represented yourself as ‘LISA’ and that you are a female from Singapore, are representation which you knew or ought to have known is false, and you thereby committed an offense contrary to Section 6 of the Advance Fee Fraud and Other Fraud Related Offences Act, 2006 and punishable under section 1(3) of the same Act,” according to Niu’s charge.

When the allegations were read to them, they all entered “not guilty” pleas. Prosecutors Ahmed Yerima, F.S. Mohammed, A.M. Dambuwq, and N.C. Mutfwang then requested a trial date and the defendants’ custody in a correctional facility.

Judge Aneke ordered the defendants to be held in the Ikoyi and Kirikiri Correctional Centers and postponed the trial to March 14 and 21, 2025.