EFCC: Kwara court jails Varsity student, three others for internet fràud

Justice Suleiman Akanbi of the Kwara State High Court sitting in Ilorin on Monday, 9th of December 2024 sentenced a student, Akanbi Akorede Afeez, to two years imprisonment for internet fraud.

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, in a statement on Tuesday, 10th of December 2024, disclosed that Afeez was arraigned on a lone-count charge bordering on internet fraud.

The charge reads:

“That you, Akanbi Akorede Afeez (a.k.a Erdis) between February 2023 or thereabout Kwara State within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court dishonestly induced one Dinero Enviado, a white man to send you gift cards worth the sum of Five Hundred and Fifty One Dollars when you knowingly pretended and represented yourself to be one Erdis, a white lady who is in a romantic relationship with him and you thereby committed an offence contrary to and punishable under section 321 and punishable under section 324 of the Penal Code Laws of Northern Nigeria.”

Equally, on Monday, December 9, 2024 the Ilorin Zonal Directorate secured the conviction of another set of three suspected fraudsters before Justice Haleema Saleeman of the State High Court, Ilorin over offences bordering on internet fraud.

They are Oladejo Ibrahim Abiodun, Yusuf Adewale Gbadeyan and one Adeoye David Oluwatimileyin.

The convicts were prosecuted on one-count separate charges to which they pleaded guilty.

For instance, the charge against Adeoye reads: “That you, Adeoye David Oluwatimileyin sometime in 2024, in Kwara State within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court did cheat by personation when you pretended to be one Sierra and, in that guise, induced one J. Miguel Montaya to send you $300 to you under the guise of a romantic relationship and punishable under section 321 of the Penal Code Law and punishable under section 324 of the same Laws” [CONTINUE READING HERE]>>>>