FBI suspect bags two years for N5.9m fraud in Kwara

Date: 2020-08-20

Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has secured the conviction of an internet fraudster, and FBI suspect, Akinyemi Festus.

The anti-corruption agency said this in a statement by its Head of Media and Publicity, Mr Dele Oyewale.

The statement noted that Justice Oluwatoyin Taiwo of the Lagos State Special Offences Court, Ikeja convicted and sentenced Festus to two years imprisonment for internet fraud.

The convict was prosecuted by the Ilorin Zonal office of EFCC on two counts of internet fraud.

He was also said to be on the wanted list of the Federal Bureau of Investigations of the United States Department of Justice.

The FBI, in a petition dated July 10, 2019, had appealed to the Ilorin Zonal office of the commission to ensure the arrest and prosecution of Festus for his roles in a multi-million naira international scam.

One of the charges read, "That you Abiona Akinyemi Festus (Ella Jones), sometime between January 2011 and May 2016 at Lagos, by means of fraudulent trick used the email address

"Obtained the sum of N5, 950, 000 from retirement accounts, held by an insurance company for public workers in the United States of America."

Festus pleaded guilty to the charge.

The Head of Advance Fee Fraud, EFCC, Ilorin Zonal office, Olamide Sadiq, reviewed the facts of the case, which included that the defendant was arrested based on a petition from the FBI linking him to the offence.

Justice Taiwo convicted him as charged and sentenced him to one-year imprisonment on each of the two counts with N300, 000 option of fine on each of the counts.

The judge also ordered him to return the sums of money he cornered to the FBI.

Source

 

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

IsDB     NTA Ilorin     Islamic Development Bank     Oya State     Mansur Alfanla     Salman Alada     Gamji Members Association     ITP     Inside Kwara     Iqra Books     Twitter     Abubakar Atiku     Pakata Development Association     Salary     Bola Ahmed Tinubu     Rashidi Yekini     Hamid Bobboyi     Elections     Ilorin Like-Minds     Allocation     Olomu Of Omu-Aran     Kwara     Pakata     Ilorin South Constituency     Sa\'adu Salahu     Nnazua     Bilikisu Gambari     Adeniyi Ojo     Bayo Onimago     Ahmed \'Lateef     Erin-ile     Ayekale     James Ayeni     Olomu     Umar Saro     Nigerian Army     Abdulrazaq Magaji     KWAFFA     Wahab Olasupo Egbewole     Femi Gbajabiamila     Tope Daramola     Offa Metropolitan Club     Fatai Olodo     Lola Olabayo     Ajayi Okasanmi     Ramadhan     Yemi Sanni     Ayobami Seriki     Kwha.gov.ng     Raji AbdulRasaq     KWSUED     Musbau A. Akanji     Y.A. Abdulkareem     ARMTI     Arca Santa     Elerinjare-Ibobo     Centre For Community Empowerment And Poverty Eradication     Savannah Centre For Diplomacy, Democracy And Development     Stephen Fasakin     Kola Bukoye     Teachers Specific Allowance     Eleja     Aro Yahaya     Micheal Imodu-Ganmo Road     Iyaloja-General     Ibrahim Akaje     Adebayo Salami     Fatai Adeniyi Garba     Universal Basic Education Commission     Isiaka Abdulrazak     Kayode Ogunlowo     AbdulRahman Saad     Marafan Shonga     Chief Imam Of Lafiagi     Senate     Abdulsalam Firdaous Amosa     Yusuf Abdulraheem    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Olokoba Sulyman     Umar Bayo Abdulwahab     CBT     Olaiya Zuberu     Aishat Mohammed Lawal     CUTI     Alabere     NaAllah     Overland     Olatinwo     IsDB     Maigida     Yashikira     Gafaru Olayiwola Olorisade     Olatunji Moronfoye     Balogun Gambari     Saidu Kawu     UNILORIN Alumni     Lawan     Ahmed Bayero     Amuda Aluko     Facebook     Yahaya Abdulkareem     Saheed Alakoso     Oyedepo     Fatimah Abdulkadir     Monthly Sanitation Exercise     Yahya Mohammed     Baba Issa     Yahaya Jibril Usman     HICA     Fatima Abolore Jimoh     Isiaka Danmeromu     Femi Ogunsola     Salman Suleiman     Code Of Conduct     Kolawole Bashirat     Michael Nzwekwe     Akanbi-Oke     Kale Belgore     Jeunkunu-Malete-Bani     Abdulquawiy Olododo     Lola Ashiru     Moji Makanjuola     Abdulfatai Salman Baakini     Sheu Ndanusa Usman     Isiaka Abdulrazak     Segun Abifarin     NNPP     Kumbi Titiloye     Shaaba Lafiagi     Hussein Olokooba     Ibrahim Abikan     Tunde Mukaila Mustapha     Amos Justus Sayo     Abraham Ojo     Oyedun Juliana Funke     Ope Saraki     Farouk Salim     TESCOM 2025     Lukman Oyebanji Fagbemi     Afetu Of Alabe     Muhammad Yahya     Elese Of Igbaja     Yakubu Danladi     Jimoh Saadudeen Muhammed     Ohoro Of Shao     Reuben Paraje     John Olobayo     Salau Kabiru Abdullahi     AbdulQowiy Olododo     Lateef Alagbonsi     Woro     Salman Jawondo     Adamu B. Yaqubu     Saad Omo\'ya     KWTV