A smooth African scam
artist, dubbed ‘Precious Max’ whose real name is Precious Chineme Nwoko who
used an online dating scam to trick women into smuggling heroin for an
international drug cartel will spend 27 years in prison after losing his
appeal.
The notorious Nigerian drug
lord who deceived women with his physique and good looks has been sent to
prison in Cambodia for 27 years.
Revealing details of the
how he was caught, Dailymail reported that the Nigerian national is part of an
active elaborate international drug smuggling syndicate that uses online dating
to lure women into unwittingly moving drugs, according to Fairfax Media and The
Feed.
Through his online dating
tricks using platforms such as Facebook, Tagged, Badoo and Twoo, he lured
dozens – possibly many more – of women across the globe. He enticed interested
women looking for a partner by sharing photos of his muscular physique in
swimming pools and bars, with the promise of love and business.
A convicted drug trafficker
and fraudster, Precious used fake photos of offices and fake passports to fool
victims of his Khmer Arts and Craft business.
Before he was jailed, the
mirage of dealing arts and crafts was used to augment his ‘wine and dining’ of
women in an attempt to trick them into smuggling drugs, including heroin, out
of Cambodia. One of the unidentified women Precious conned was luckily not
prosecuted.
After meeting online, the
woman travelled to Phnom Penh to meet the scam artist posing as a South African
businessman in the import and export trades.
After four days Precious
proposed to the woman on the day she was to return to Melbourne with samples
from his business for an Australian associate.
Upon arriving in Melbourne,
Customs found two kilograms of heroin sewn into a compartment and after
realising what had happened she collapsed in shock.
She was not prosecuted and
the case was dropped in 2015, with authorities agreeing she was tricked by
Precious.
Another Australian was a
Queensland mother who was sentenced to 23 years in a Cambodian jail after 2.2kg
of heroin was found in her bag by Cambodian authorities. She will now serve the
sentence.
Yoshe Ann Taylor was
arrested at Phnom Penh airport in September 2013 and has since spent three
years behind bars, reported The Sydney Morning Herald.
The 44-year-old was the
unwitting victim of ‘Precious Max’ who this time supposedly posed as an arts
and crafts dealer. The relationship between the pair was well developed as
‘Precious Max’ created an online relationship with Taylor for one year. Nwoko
then offered to pay for Taylor’s airline ticket to travel to Cambodia once a
certain level of trust was established.
It was during Taylor’s
third trip to country when Nwoko asked her to take some artworks back to
Australia in her backpack.
However Taylor did not get
far after she was caught at the airport by Cambodia police who were tipped with
information provided by Australian Federal Police, claim the publication.
Nwoko was arrested shortly
after Taylor in Cambodia. Nwoko and the woman appealed their conviction which
was heard today.
In its ruling today, the
court dashed his hope as it upheld the 27 years imprisonment handed to him in
2014. The Cambodian Court ruled that his sentence was appropriate and in
accordance with Cambodia law. The court also upheld the prison terms slammed on
the Frenchwoman, and Australian.
The trio were all convicted
for trying to smuggle heroin to Australia.
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