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.

Mubarak Oladosu     Kayode Oyin Zubair     Kayode Laro     Ishaq Salman     Kwara State Branch Of The National Library     Ojuekun Sarumi     Abdulmutalib Shittu     Abdulfatai Baakini     Osinbajo     Simon Sayomi     AbdulRazaq Jiddah     Centre For Community Empowerment And Poverty Eradication     Ilorin East/South Federal Constituency     Abdulmalik Bashir Mopelola Risikatullahi     Smart School     Wasiu Onidugbe     Abdullahi Imam Abdullahi     Balogun Fulani     Hassanat Bello     AIT Ilorin     Okeose Christian Cementary     Elesie Of Esie     Oba Abdulraheem     Maryam Ado Bayero     Khairat Gwadabe     Abdulrasaq Alaro     Abdulraufu Mustapha     John Kehinde Salako     Sobi Specialist Hospital     Rasheed Jimoh     Bursary     March 28     Isiaq Khadeejah     Www.Kwarareports.com     Esinniobiwa Quareeb     Idofin     Suleiman Yahya Alapansapa     Abraham Ojo     Obuh     Saliu Oluwole     Dar-Al-Handasah Consultants     Abdulbaqi Jimoh     Alfa Modibo Belgore     Samuel Adedoyin     Aasiyat Bello Oyedepo     Federal Neuro-Psychiatric Hospital     Abubakar Baba Sulaiman     Kwara State Fish Farmers Association     Kolade Solagberu     Daud Adeshola     Theophilus Oyebiyi     Saheed Akinwumi     Tanke Flyover Bridge     Alabi Olayemi Abdulrazak     Ilorin Innovation Hub     Oluronke Adeyemi     Nagode     Lawal Olohungbebe     Jelili Yusuf     Oko     Lanre Badmus     Al-Hikmah Radio     Babs Iwarere     Aisha Buhari     Oniwasi Agbaye     Erubu Oba Zubair     Abubakar Ndakene     Abdulrasheed Akogun     Adeola Abraham     Yusuf Amuda Gobir     Sidikat Akaje     Students Union Government     Baba Adini Of Kwara State     Yaman     Muritala Awodun     Femi Gbajabiamila     Umar Danladi Shero    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

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

Baruten     Labour Party     Dapo Teni Nig Enterprise     Oloje     Kisra     Kola Olota     Www.Kwarareports.com     Gbadeyan Gbadura Yomi     Sola Saraki Educational Foundation     Esuwoye     Gbemi Saraki     Amos Justus Sayo     Ramadan     Ile Arugbo     Afin Descendants Union Of Odo-Owa     IHS Towers     ANCOPPS     Yusuf Aiyedun     Shuaib Olarongbe     Yahaya Dumoye     Tuesday Assayomo     Allocation     Abdulganiyu Salahudeen     Raimi Iyanda     Bashiru Makama     ER-KANG Mining     ER-KANG     Kwara 2019     Seun Bolaji     Falokun-Oja     Just Law Forum     Doyin Agbamu     Forgo Battery Company Limited     Mumini Ishola Hanafi     Adamu Atta     TIIDELab     Fatai Garuba Labaka     Kwasu     Christian Association Of Nigeria     Kale Bayero     Elerin Of Adanla     Wale Oladepo     Yoonus Lawal     Clara Nwachukwu     Niyi Ogundiran     Trade Lenda SME Fair     Dar-Al-Handasah Consultants     Sun Qing Rong     T And K FOODS     Abdulwaheed Musa     Boko Haram     Amos Bajeh     Abdullahi AbdulMajeed     Village Alive Development Association     Ayodele Olaosebikan     Aminu Adisa Logun     Edret Sabi Abel     Babatunde Ishola Babaita     Ubandawaki     Owo Arugbo     Baboko     Ramat Oganija     Zulu Gambari     Oniwasi Agbaye     Veterinary Teaching Hospital     Mohammed Yisa     Ahman Pategi     Isa Aremu     Sunday Otokiti     Sam Onile     GAMA     SDP     March 28     Umar Danladi Shero     Shero     Bola Shagaya     Ajeigbe