EFCC Arrests Fake Lawyer for N7m Scam

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 Operatives of the EFCC have arrested a fake lawyer, Thankgod Okachi Echem  in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, for defrauding his " client",  a sum of N7,000,000.

Okachi, who confessed to be a School Certificate holder,  was arrested based on a petition to the EFCC by one of his “clients”: Mr. Jonny Wali alleged that the fake lawyer defrauded him of the sum of N7,000,000,  being part of the money awarded him by a Rivers State High Court, sitting in Port Harcourt, as compensation in a legal battle involving him and the former Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN) now Port Harcourt Electricity Distribution Company.

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