Alleged fraud: EFCC tenders Naira Marley’s laptop and iPhone in court

The trial of the musician, Naira Marley, for alleged 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.

According to Punch News, At the trial opening on Wednesday, an investigator with the EFCC, Nuru Buhari, said the anti-graft agency retrieved evidence of credit fraud from Naira Marley’s laptop.

Buhari, who told the court he worked in the EFCC forensic department, said an analysis of Naira Marley’s laptop showed he frequented the top five most-visited websites dealing in stolen credit cards.

The investigator said his team also found a file named, Select BIN 101.txt and .txt., and that on opening the file, they discovered it contained “stolen credit card information with special status that allows transaction up to $12,000 without a pin or physical card.”

Buhari said analysis of installed apps on Naira Marley’s laptop showed that two them, IP VANISH and TOR Browser, enabled the owner of the computer to disguise his identity and location.

Justice Nicholas Oweibo adjourned till Thursday for continuation of trial.