Court jails Flavour’s impersonator for defrauding US citizen

A Lagos Federal High Court sentenced Courage Ipaka to two years in prison for defrauding a U.S. woman of $53,000 by impersonating Nigerian musician Flavour.

Ipaka received the funds via Bitcoin, converted them to Naira, and deposited them into his account.

He can pay a N2 million fine instead of serving prison time, and N7.9 million will be returned to the victim.

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