The trial of musician Naira Marley for credit card
fraud opened on Wednesday before the Federal High Court in Lagos, with the
Economic and Financial Crimes Commission tendering as exhibits an Apple laptop
and an iPhone said to have been recovered from him. Naira Marley, whose real
name is Azeez Fashola, released a song with the title, Am I a Yahoo boy?
He is facing 11 counts before Justice Nicholas Oweibo.
He pleaded not guilty during his arraignment in May and was granted bail in the
sum of N2m, with two sureties. At the trial opening on Wednesday, an
investigator with the EFCC, Nuru Buhari, said the anti-graft agency retrieved
“damning evidence of credit card fraud from Naira Marley’s laptop.
Buhari, who told the court that he works in the EFCC
forensic department, said an analysis of Naira Marley’s laptop showed that he
frequented the top five most-visited websites which deal in buying and selling
stolen credit cards.
Buhari, who was fielding questions from the
prosecutor, Rotimi Oyedepo, said, “During analysis, the cache file and history
file revealed that the most frequently visited sites by the user of the
computer includes www.arder007.org www.Zuni.sa www.nationwidecheckbalance.co.uk
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