According to the EFCC website, Justice F. O Ohwo of Delta
State High Court, Warri, Delta State, on Wednesday, December 10, 2014,
convicted and sentenced Pastor Glory Okeoghene Abrefera and Reverend Vincent
Okpogu to seven (7) years imprisonment each for stealing depositors' funds amounting
to N32million ( Thirty- Two Million Naira only).
The two clergymen were nabbed
after deceiving unsuspecting members of the public into investing in Mustard
Seed Micro Investment Limited, a wonder bank, after which they defrauded them
of their hard-earned money.
Reverend Vincent Okpogu
While delivering judgment
today, Justice Ohwo convicted the accused persons on all of the nine count
charges preferred against them by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission
EFCC. They were sentenced to seven years
imprisonment on each count. The sentence is to run concurrently.
According to the judge, the
convicts will serve the seven-year term at Okere Prisons in Warri, Delta State,
after completing the ten years sentence they are currently serving for illegal
banking.
It would be recalled that Abrefera
and Okpogu were on January 7, 2013, convicted and sentenced to ten (10) years
imprisonment by Justice I. N. Buba of the Federal High Court Asaba, on a
4-count charge, for operating a wonder bank called Mustard Seed Micro
Investment Limited.
According to the prosecutor, Mr. G. K. Latona, "the convicts are
still answering to other charges at Otor-Udu High Court for related offences
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