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.

Just Law Forum     Oko Erin     George Innih     Oluronke Adeyemi     Olaiya Zuberu     Ibrahim Jawondo     Innocent Okoye     Aishat Mohammed Lawal     Crystal Corner Shops     Shagari     Bluenile Associates     Lithium Deposit     Mustapha Akanbi     Abdulrosheed Okiki     Muhammad Ghali Alaaya     Mohammed Abdulahi     Kwara State Television     Kassim Babamale     Ibrahim Akaje     Ajibike Katibi     Muhammed Danjuma     Ajeigbe     Kwara Liberation Group     Adanla-Irese     Usman Rifun     Mogaji Aare     Prince Bola Ajibola     Babatunde Ajeigbe     Osinbajo     Yaman     Islamiya Abdulraheem     Ayotunde Emmanuel Alao     Baruten     Balogun Fulani     Kisra     Baba Adini Of Kwara State     Baruba     IFK     Abdulrahman Abdulrasaq     Ishola Moses Abiodun     Ilorin Like-Minds     Sobi FM     Aliyu Kora-Sabi     Oladipo Akanmu Tolani     Toyin Falola     Ishaq Abdulkarim     Igosun     NSCIA     Yunus Oniboki     Femi Ogunsola     Ijagbo Health Centre     Olomu     Sola Saraki University     Ibrahim Labaika     Tunde Idiagbon Road     Ayodele Olaosebikan     Olaiya Lawal     Jimba Babatunde     Oyawoye     Alfa Modibo Belgore     Ahmed Bolaji Nagode     Yakubu Danladi     Muhammadu Buhari     Abdulrahman Abdulrasak     Adedipe     Iyaloja-General     CUTI     Esuwoye     AbdulRahman Saad     Lafia Aliyu Korasabi     CCB     Towoju     National Pilot     Yoonus Lawal     Muazam Nayaya     Micheal Imoudu     Taofeek Sanusi    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

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

Monkey Pox     A.G.F Abdulrasaq     SSA Youth Engagement     Abubakar Suleiman     Prince Sunday Fagbemi     Ganiyu Abolarin     SWAN     Sanusi Abubakar     Shettima Of Ilorin     Mohammed Abdulahi     Saka Isau     Local Government Pension Board     Jimoh Olusola Imam     Abdulrazaq Solihudeen     Sardauna     Henry Olaosebikan     Economic And Financial Crimes Commission     Abdulganiyu Salahudeen     Anilelerin     Kannike     Abdulrazaq Adebayo     Agor Market     Kwara State Fire Service     JAMB     Ndama Al-hassan     CACOVID     Dele Momodu     Tricycle Owners Association Of Nigeria     Okanlawon Taiwo     Hijaab     Imam Gambari     Abdulkadir Bolakale Sakariyah     Ganmo     Nigeria Governors\' Forum     Egbewole     Third Estate     Gafaru Olayiwola Olorisade     Taofeeq Olateju     Khairat Gwadabe     FOMWAN     National Broadcasting Commission     Amina El-Imam     Yekeen Alabi     Academic Staff Union Of Universities     Busari Toyin Isiaka     Ayodele Shittu     Offa Metropolitan Club     Gbemisola Oguntimehin     Abdulmutalib Shittu     Abdulmumini AbdulRazaq     Abdulrasheed Lafia     Ben Duntoye     Obasanjo     Ibrahim Labaika     Dumagi     Bashir Omolaja Bolarinwa     Musa Yeketi     Isiaka Alikinla     Oke Sunna     Ilorin Water Reticulation     Hakeem Idris     Awodun     Yoruba     College Of Arabic And Islamic Legal Studies     Bukola Ajikobi     Laolu Saraki     Olaiya Lawal     Moronfoye     Adebara     Alliance For Democracy     Okedare     Presidential Election     Balogun Gambari     Mutawali     Muyideen Ajani Bello     Lateef Fagbemi     HICA