$11m Cyber Fraud: Lagos Court Orders Invictus Obi’s N280m Forfeited
Recently, Federal High Court in Lagos has given orders for the temporary forfeiture of the sum of N280,555,010.65 discovered in the bank accounts of Invictus Oil and Gas Limited and Invictus Investment Limited.
Joy Kalu 
Obinwanne Okeke, popularly known as Invictus, is currently standing trial in the United States of America over an alleged $11m cyber fraud, following his arrest by the FBI
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission had told the court that Invictus Obi was the owner of the two firms (Invictus Oil and Gas Limited and Invictus Investment Limited)
"A strong leader of a cyber crime syndicate that specialised in business e-mail compromise" EFCC said.
Following an ex parte application by the EFCC on Monday, Justice Rilwan Aikawa made an order for the temporary forfeiture of the money.
EFCC lawyer, Rotimi Oyedepo, had told the court that he was assigned to investigate a request for information on Invictus and three others by the U.S Department of Justice, Office of the Legal Attache, US Consulate-General.
He added that the funds in the accounts were “reasonably suspected” to be proceeds of cyber crime and urged the judge to order its forfeiture to the Federal Government to prevent Okeke from dissipating same.
