EFCC Press Release: Peter Iyen Bags Five Years Imprisonment for Forgery

Posted: May

By Wilson Uwujaren

Justice M.B Idris of the Federal High Court, Lagos on May 27, 2013, convicted and sentenced Peter Nosakhire Iyen to five years imprisonment for forgery and counterfeiting.

The convict, Peter Nosakhire Iyen and Johan Anderson (still at large) was arraigned by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC on January 26, 2006, on a 12-count charge of  forgery and counterfeiting of United States Postal Service’s Money Order punishable under Section 1(2) (a) of the Miscellaneous Offences Act Cap. M17 Laws of the Federation of Nigeria, 2004.

The convict pleaded not guilty to all the charges preferred against him and was remanded at the Ikoyi Prison since 2006. He was consequently convicted by Justice Idris on all the 12 counts preferred against him. He was sentenced to five years imprisonment on each of the counts and the sentence is to run concurrently. The court also ordered that all the forged International Money Orders be destroyed.
Iyen’s journey to prison began on December 16, 2005, when he was arrested by operatives of the EFCC for fraudulently forging United States Money Orders and also conspired to export same from Nigeria to the United States. He also fraudulently induced one Grabb Gregory (a.k.a Oleg Stromsky) of Hyo Eastern Province, United States to buy the said counterfeited Money Orders with serial numbers 70381358876, 7408139887 and 70381798875.