Chairman, Financial and Monetary Crimes Fee, Abdulrasheed Bawa
The Ibadan Zonal Command of the Financial and Monetary Crimes Fee has secured the conviction and sentencing of 17 web fraudsters earlier than Justices Bayo Taiwo, Ladoke Akintola, and Mohammed Owolabi of the State Excessive Court docket, Ibadan, Oyo State and Justice Mosunmola Dipeolu of Ogun State Excessive Court docket, Abeokuta, on a separate one-count cost every.
An announcement by the Head of Media & Publicity of the fee, Wilson Uwujaren, stated the jail phrases vary from two to 9 months of neighborhood service, and one yr in jail.
The convicts, in accordance with Uwujaren, are Oduola Kunmi Ireola, Igbamidun Joshua Olamiposi, Ismael Fatai Olatunji, Osundele Oladapo Daniel, Olawale Isaac Adeleke, Olorunyomi Idowu Babatunde, Aneh Ojonimi, Olaide Iyanuoluwa Sadare, Akintola Babatunde Rasheed, Jamiu Babatunde Salam, Aluko Abayomi Oluwadamilare, Bello Ridwan Ayobami, Maleek Michael Ibrahim, Arasi Oluwaseun Tobi, Ganiu Fawaz Olalekan, Bello Ayoinde Olamilekan and Abiodun Taiwo Kareem.
All of them pleaded ‘responsible’ to the one-count cost filed towards every one in every of them by the EFCC.
Consequently, prosecution counsel, Modupe Akinkoye, Oyelakin Oyediran, Oluwatoyin Owodunni, Musa Galadanchi, Abdulrasheed Suleiman, Mabas Mabur, and Samsudeen Bashir reviewed the info of the instances and urged the courts to convict and sentence the defendants as charged.
Osundele was convicted and sentenced to one-year imprisonment whereas Arasi, Ganiu and Ibrahim bagged 9 months jail time period every.
Additionally, Akintola was convicted and sentenced to 9 months of neighborhood service, Oduola, Jamiu, Aluko and Bello to 6 months of neighborhood service every whereas Igbamidun and Kareem bagged 5 months of neighborhood service every.
Moreover, Olatunji was convicted and sentenced to 4 months of neighborhood service, Ayorinde to 2 months of neighborhood service whereas Olorunyomi, Ojonimi, Sadare had been convicted and fined N100,000.00 (One Hundred Thousand Naira) every and Adeleke to N150,000 .00 (One Hundred and Fifty Thousand Naira) fantastic.
Justice Bayo Taiwo ordered that Osundele Oladapo Daniel pay the sum of $16,671. 00USD in restitution and forfeit one white color Toyota Venza automobile value N7million to the Federal Authorities of Nigeria.
Different convicts had been additionally ordered to restitute their victims and forfeit all objects recovered from them to the federal government.