"Nigeria jails 9 Chinese nationals for being part of international cyberfraud syndicate" The Record, 6 June 2025

The Federal High Court of Nigeria convicted nine Chinese nationals on Thursday and sentenced them each to a year in prison for [...] allegedly involved training and recruiting young Nigerians to commit online fraud.

Law enforcement officers from Nigeria’s Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) arrested the gang in December [...].

[...] EFCC said the nine Chinese nationals [...] had been part of a “large-scale cyberterrorism and identity theft operation” [...].

Alongside the nine convicted on Thursday, dozens of Chinese nationals have been arraigned as a result of the raid and accused [...].

The nine defendants [...] will be deported after they have completed their prison terms. They were each fined ₦1,000,000 ($640).

China’s ambassador [...] had previously expressed regret about the arrests [...] and asked the Nigerian authorities to respect the rights of the dozens of Chinese citizens arrested on suspicion of committing digital crimes [...].

Ambassador [...] proposed sending a working group to Nigeria to work with the country’s law enforcement agencies to investigate cybercrime perpetrated by Chinese nationals.