Crime
Parents of US model, Courtney Clenney arrested for evidence tampering in Nigerian boyfriend’s murder case
Kim and Deborah Clenney, parents of Courtney Clenney, the US-based Instagram model accused of killing Christian Obumseli, her boyfriend, have been arrested for allegedly tampering with evidence in the murder case.
In 2022, Courtney was charged with second-degree murder after a physical altercation resulted in Obumseli’s death from a fatal stab wound in their Miami apartment.
Her lawyers claimed it was an act of “self-defense”.
Cell phone recordings made by Obumseli before his death captured Courtney appearing to be using racial slurs during an argument.
Since August 2022, the model has been held in the Miami-Dade corrections and rehabilitation centre.
According to a recent report by NBC, Courtney’s parents were booked into the Travis county jail in Texas on Tuesday after authorities received warrants to access their iCloud accounts.
The authorities said they discovered a group chat among Kim, Deborah, and their daughter’s attorneys discussing how to access a laptop that belonged to Obumseli.
“Will be sending the laptop PIN ideas so we can try them before you see her again?” authorities claimed Kim wrote on September 26, 2022.
They also alleged that Courtney’s father asked the group chat again for password suggestions days later, to which Frank Prieto, one of the model’s lawyers, replied with six options.
The authorities further claimed that other messages exchanged included coordination of the laptop transfer between Deborah and Prieto.
Kim and Deborah have now been charged with unauthorised access to a computer, a third-degree felony in Florida.
The Clenney family attorney, however, condemned the charges as an attempt to manipulate media narratives and discredit them ahead of legal proceedings.
“It appears excessive in that the family is now confined in jail awaiting an extradition hearing on what may be an attempt to manipulate media headlines and discredit them before Thursday’s scheduled hearing on a gag order in the case,” the attorney said.
Crime
NDLEA arrests returning businessman for smuggling cocaine
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency has arrested a businessman identified as an ‘I Just Got Back’ returnee for attempting to smuggle cocaine into the country.
Femi Babafemi, the agency’s Director of Media and Advocacy, shared videos of the seized contraband on X.com on Sunday.
The suspect, who had just returned from a foreign trip, initially raised suspicion due to his nervous demeanour.
NDLEA officials subjected him to a routine screening, during which wraps of cocaine began to fall from his body.
The statement said: “Narco-trend update: The moment #ndlea_nigeria officers intercepted an ‘I Just Got Back’ businessman, screened him, and wraps of cocaine began to ‘rain’ from his body. Who will tell them that NDLEA will always get them no matter the mode of concealment?”
Click the link below to watch the video:
Crime
Court jails ex-IMF chief Rodrigo Rato for tax fraud, corruption
A Madrid court on Friday sentenced former International Monetary Fund chief Rodrigo Rato to more than four years in prison for tax crimes, money laundering and corruption.
Judges found Rato who was also a former economy minister in Spain, guilty of “three offences against the treasury, one offence of money laundering and one offence of corruption between individuals,” the court announced in a statement.
Crime
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Mathias Pogba will be able to serve his one-year sentence with an electronic bracelet rather than behind bars.
The court also fined Pogba’s brother 20,000 euros for participating in the attempted extortion of 13 million euros ($13.5 million) from Pogba in 2022, and for putting pressure on the player, his family and his business contacts to obtain the payment.
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