21-yr-old pleads guilty to internet fraud in Ilorin
The Ilorin Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), on Friday, arraigned a 21-year-old student, Itanola Abdulsamad, before Justice Sikiru Oyinloye of a Kwara State High Court, Ilorin on four count charges bordering on internet fraud and related offences.
The count two charge reads, “That you, Itanola Abdulsamad, (and) Popoola Afolami (at large) and Olayeni Yemi (at large) sometime between 2018 and 2019, at Ilorin within the judicial division of the Kwara State High Court fraudulently induced several unsuspecting foreigners vide the internet to deliver to you digital currency from which you benefited $950 (nine hundred and fifty United States Dollars) and thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 321 of the Penal Code and punishable under Section 324 of the same Penal Code.”
The accused person pleaded guilty to the charge.
Justice Oyinloye adjourned the case till October 6, for judgement.
