Six internet fraudsters jailed in Kwara
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) Ilorin zonal office has secured the conviction of six persons by the State High Court, sitting in Ilorin, the state capital.
According to a statement shared on the X handle of the anti-graft agency, on Saturday, January 18, they were convicted on multiple charges that bordered on retention of proceeds of criminal activities, cheating, impersonation and internet fraud.
The statement reads: “Justices Haleema Saleeman and Mahmud Abdulgafar of the Kwara State High Court, sitting in Ilorin, have convicted and sentenced six persons to jail for fraud.
“The convicts are Akingbehin Temitope Oluwaseyi, Ajayi Elijah Olaoluwa, Samsom Babatunde Ilesanmi, Quadri Olamilekan Lamidi, Kolawole Kehinde Moses and Olatunji Elija Olabisi.
“They were prosecuted by the Ilorin Zonal Directorate of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC on multiple charges that bordered on retention of proceeds of criminal activities, cheating, impersonation and internet fraud.
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“Oluwaseyi (a 25-year-old car dealer), Olaoluwa, Ilesanmi and Lamidi were dragged before Justice Saleeman while the duo of Moses and Olabisi were prosecuted before Justice Abdulgafar.
“The charge against Oluwaseyi reads: ‘That you, Akingbehin Temitope Oluwaseyi, sometime between 2021 and 2024 at Offa, within the judicial division of the Kwara State High Court, did retain the control of the gross sum of N2,707,562 (Two Million, Seven Hundred and Seven Thousand, Five Hundred and Sixty-Two Naira) in your Opay account number 09064776590 being the sum paid to you which you knew to be proceed of criminal conduct, thereby committed an offence contrary to and punishable under Section 17(a) and (b) of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (Establishment) Act 2004’.”
Source: The Nation
