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Africa-Press<\/a> – Nigeria<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>A Nigerian, Dirisu Abusari Dodo, who was convicted and sentenced to 14 years imprisonment in China for an alleged fraud, has written to the Abike Dabiri-Erewa\u2013led Nigerian Diaspora Commission (NIDCOM), asking the agency to intervene as he was unjustly convicted.<\/p>\n

In the letter through his lawyer, Alao Momodu, Dodo begged the Commission and the Federal Government to come to his aid as he was not given a fair judgment during the trial.<\/p>\n

In its reply to the appeal, NIDCOM said that Dodo\u2019s petition had been forwarded to the Nigerian Consulate in Guangzhou and he will surely get justice.<\/p>\n

Momodu had earlier written a letter on behalf of the convict to the Yuexiu District Police Chief, the District People\u2019s Court, Guangzhou city and the Guangdong Province, demanding that the case against Dodo be reinvestigated and reviewed.<\/p>\n

The letter to the Yuexiu Police Chief read in part:<\/p>\n

\u201cOur client needs your protection as a non-citizen of your country; we request and plead that he should be removed from this fraud case and be freed since he never gained any proceeds from the criminal activities.\u201d<\/p>\n

Momodu who also demanded a review of the legal advice with the aim to exonerate Dodo from the criminal case, appealed to the Chinese police to cause a detailed reinvestigation into the matter in order to come to a conclusion that Dodo was not part of the crime but a victim of circumstance while performing his legitimate business activities.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are solicitors to the family of Mr. Dirisu Abusari Dodo who resides and does legitimate business in your country with Nigerian Passport Number A02193276 and lives at Guangzhou city, Guangdong Province, China,\u201d the letter began.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are ceased with the facts of this case and it is our legal opinion that our client, Mr. Dirisu Abusari Dodo, is a victim of circumstance in the course of performing his daily business. Our client has so much at stake to jeopardize his freedom and happiness and that of his wife who is your citizen, and their little kids.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur client has lived in China for the past 10 years, doing business and even married a Chinese lady. As a businessman, he often engages in the business of helping entrepreneurs to receive money from different parts of the world for the sole purpose of assisting them to purchase goods and products in China.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis he has done diligently over the years and never had any issue in relation to fraud. We believe that your records will show that he has no previous criminal records in your country.<\/p>\n

\u201cDuring the course of his business, he received a call from an unknown person requesting that he assist them to buy some goods in China. Subsequently, they requested for his account details, which he furnished them.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn the course of their discussion, they told him that someone, one Mr. Li, will transfer the money for the purpose of assisting them to purchase the goods. Having received the money for the goods, they further called him that he should no longer purchase the goods but rather return the money to them through transfer.<\/p>\n

\u201cWithout hesitation, he complied and returned the said money to them without any knowledge of fraud since they were the ones that contacted him for business initially.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur client was surprised when this issue came up and believing he has done nothing wrong, he submitted himself for investigation.<\/p>\n

\u201cSir, if he was part of the fraud gang he wouldn\u2019t have done that, this is why we said and still reiterate that our client is a victim of circumstance that fell a victim of fraudsters. He never envisaged what is happening now but this is part of the hazard of doing business.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Africa-Press – Nigeria. A Nigerian, Dirisu Abusari Dodo, who was convicted and sentenced to 14 years imprisonment in China for an alleged fraud, has written to the Abike Dabiri-Erewa\u2013led Nigerian Diaspora Commission (NIDCOM), asking the agency to intervene as he was unjustly convicted. In the letter through his lawyer, Alao Momodu, Dodo begged the Commission […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":34749,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,30,28,26],"tags":[1570,2140,519,1478,254,2394],"class_list":["post-34750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-community","category-homepage-english","category-twitter","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-nigeria-2","tag-china","tag-nidcom","tag-nigeria","tag-nigerian-convicted-in-china"],"yoast_head":"\nNigerian convicted in China for fraud claims innocence, seeks justice - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A Nigerian, Dirisu Abusari Dodo, who was convicted and sentenced to 14 years imprisonment in China for an alleged fraud, ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/nigerian-convicted-in-china-for-fraud-claims-innocence-seeks-justice\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Nigerian convicted in China for fraud claims innocence, seeks justice\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A Nigerian, Dirisu Abusari Dodo, who was convicted and sentenced to 14 years imprisonment in China for an alleged fraud, ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/nigerian-convicted-in-china-for-fraud-claims-innocence-seeks-justice\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-01-10T20:07:14+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2021\/01\/img-5ffb30e7844f8.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"381\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/nigerian-convicted-in-china-for-fraud-claims-innocence-seeks-justice#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/nigerian-convicted-in-china-for-fraud-claims-innocence-seeks-justice\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Nigerian convicted in China for fraud claims innocence, seeks justice\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-01-10T20:07:14+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/nigerian-convicted-in-china-for-fraud-claims-innocence-seeks-justice\"},\"wordCount\":635,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/nigerian-convicted-in-china-for-fraud-claims-innocence-seeks-justice#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2021\/01\/img-5ffb30e7844f8.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Nigeria\",\"china\",\"NIDCOM\",\"Nigeria\",\"Nigerian convicted in China\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Community\",\"homepage-english\",\"twitter\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/nigerian-convicted-in-china-for-fraud-claims-innocence-seeks-justice#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/nigerian-convicted-in-china-for-fraud-claims-innocence-seeks-justice\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/nigerian-convicted-in-china-for-fraud-claims-innocence-seeks-justice\",\"name\":\"Nigerian convicted in China for fraud claims innocence, seeks justice - 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