A Warri High Court yesterday sentenced two pastors to a seven-year jail term for stealing N32 million from unsuspecting investors in a “wonder bank”.
Justice F. O. Ohwo found Pastor Glory Okeoghene Abrefera and Rev. Vincent Okpogu guilty of fraud.
He said the accused, who are serving a 10-year jail term for illegally running a bank, would begin the seven-year term after completing their first jail term.
Abrefera and Okpogu were found guilty of a nine-count charge levelled against them by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and convicted.
Justice Ohwo said the seven years were for each count of the charges, adding that the accused would serve the term for each count concurrently in Okere Prisons in Warri.
The prosecutor, G. K. Latona, said: “The accused are still answering to other charges at Otor-Udu High Court for related offences.”
The convicted clerics were arrested for deceiving unsuspecting public into investing in Mustard Seed Micro Investment Limited, a wonder bank.
They were said to have used the wonder bank to defraud the public.
