Two students jailed for cybercrime, romance scam in Ilorin

Date: 2021-07-10

Two University students were jailed on Friday by a Kwara State High Court sitting in Ilorin, for offences bordering on cybercrime and romance scam.

The convicts are final year students of Ekiti State University, EKSU, Ado Ekiti, Adeyemi Kehinde and 21-year-old student of Kwara State University, KWASU, Malete, Oladosun Olakunmi Olamilekan, who were convicted to various jail terms.

They were arraigned on separate charges on Friday by the Ilorin Zonal office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC.

Adeyemi, alias Queen Elizabeth, was charged on one count, while Oladosun was arraigned on three counts by the anti-graft agency before Justice Sikiru Oyinloye.

The two defendants in their separate pleas, pleaded guilty to the charges against them.

Upon their pleas, the prosecuting counsel, Sesan Ola, reviewed the facts of the cases through Lamidi Olarenwaju and Enoch Onyedikachi, who testified against the two convicts.

The two witnesses who are operatives of the commission, told the court how intelligence reports led to the arrest of the convicts at the Ilorin International Airport.

They tendered several fraudulent messages printed from their email addresses, the confessional statements of the defendants and the iPhones used as instruments of the crime, which were admitted in evidence by the court.

In his judgement, Justice Sikiru Oyinloye, said the court was convinced that the prosecution had proved its case beyond reasonable doubt, going by the plea of guilt entered by the defendants, and the unchallenged evidence of the prosecution.

The judge, thereafter, pronounced Adeyemi guilty and sentenced him to one year imprisonment with an option of N100,000 fine while ordering the forfeiture of his iPhone to the Federal government.

In the case of Oladosun, he was sentenced to one year imprisonment on counts one and two, which will run concurrently or a fine of N100,000 each on the two counts.

On count three, Justice Oyinloye, only ordered Oladosun to pay a fine of N20,000 with no custodial sentence.

Additionally, the court also ordered the forfeiture of a N209,000 draft raised in Oladosun's name and his iPhone to the Federal government.

The charge sheet of Adeyemi Kehinde, indicated that in February 2020, in Ilorin, he dishonestly involved one Miller, a white man to send him card worth 400 US dollars, when he knowingly pretended to be a white lady called Queen Elizabeth Toha, who was in love with him, a representation he knew to be false as contained in his Google voice and Google Hangout linked to his Gmail account, queentoha18@gmail.com, and thereby committed an offence contrary to and punishable under Section 324 of the Penal code of Northern Nigeria.

On Oladosun Olamilekan, (Joan Davis), he allegedly in March 2018, in Ilorin did cheat by personation when he pretended to be one Mike Storey, a white male with Gmail account mikestorey948@gmail.com and fraudulently deceived one Vicki Baldwin to send 300 US dollars worth of iTunes gift card and thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 321 of the Penal code and punishable under Section 324 of the same Penal code.

Source

 


Cloud Tag: What's trending

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

Mahee Abdulkadir     Kayode Ogunlowo     Shuaib Boni Aliyu     AbdulHamid Adi     Ben Duntoye     Ijagbo     Mogaji Aare     A.O. Belgore     Kale Ayo     Coronavirus     Markaz Arabic And Islamic Training Institute, Agege     Opaleke Bukola Iyabo     Ilorin Curfew     Yusuf Olaolu Ali     Economic And Financial Crimes Commission     International Public Sector Accounting Standards     Victor Gbenga Yusuf     Jimoh Bashir     Ibrahim Taiwo     Bola Sagaya     Mike Omotosho     Ridhwanullah Al-Ilory     Olabode George Towoju     Maigida Soludero Transit     Gbemi Saraki     Abdullahi Atanda     Igbaja     Rapheal Ashaolu     Fatai Garuba Labaka     Abdulkarim Adisa     Oba Of Jebba     Abdulrazak Shehu Akorede     Kunle Okeowo     Abdulrasheed Na\'Allah     LEAH Charity Foundation     Ajibola Saliu Ajia     Kulende-UITH     Akanbi-Oke     David Adesina     PharmAccess Foundation     Baba Isale     Agbarere     Ibrahim Agboola Gambari     Amosa     Gambari     Alfa Yahaya Road     Olaiya Lawal     Isiaka AbdulRazaq     Hamidu Olowo     Abdulrazaq Adebayo     AbdulRahman Saad     Tafida     Muritala Olarewaju     Kannike     Kwara State Football Association     Iyabo Adewuyi     Omu-aran     Oluwole Dupe     Kwara State Sports Commission     Maryam Nurudeen     Azeez Salawu     Moses Afolayan     Tunji Folami     Toyin Saraki     SSUCOEN     Federal Road Maintenance Agency     Modupe Oluwole     Magaji Erubu     Eleyele     Michael Nzekwe     Niguel Gallando Marcias     Olufolake Abdulrazaq     TESCOM     Oyun     Coalition Of Kwara North Groups     Seni Saraki     Dasuki Belgore    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

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

Sola Saraki Educational Foundation     Tunji Olawuyi     Roseline Oni Aremu     Ilorin West/Asa Federal Constituency     Gbemi Saraki     Idowu Laro     Apaola     Egbejila     Aisha Ahman Pategi     UNILORIN Alumni Association     Toyin Sanusi     Baba-Isale     Lucky Omoluwa     Bukola Saraki     Bayo Lawal     Ilorin Airport     Ajikobi     SUBEB     Jimoh Bashir     Bola Tinubu     Muhammed Abdullahi     Awoye     Hydro-electric Power Producing Areas Development Commission     Abubakar Olusola Saraki     Popo-Igbonna     Emmanuel Bello     C2c@kwarastate.gov.ng     Tosho Yaqub     Jeunkunu-Malete-Bani     Bankole Omishore     Lawyers Unite Against Corruption     Abdulbaqi Jimoh     Oba Mogaji Abdulkadir     Alanamu     Abdulrazaq Magaji     HAMFAT Clinic And Maternity     Tayo Awodiji     Lukman Adeloyin     Suleman Abubakar     Omotosho     Yusuf Abdulraheem     Diagnostic Centre     AIT Ilorin     Asa     Abdulmajeed Abdullahi     The Herald     Eleja Taiwo Banu     Col. Taiwo     Olushola Saraki     Salihu Jibril Garbi     Idris Garuba     National Pilot     Jide Ashonibare     Balogun-Ojomu     Ghali Muhammed     Share/Tsaragi     Funmilayo Oniwa     Yusuf Ibitokun Sherifat     Zainab Abass     Prince Mahe Abdulkadir     Fatimat Saliu     Yakub Lai Gobir     Ahmad Fatima Bisola     Oba Abdulkadir La\'aro     Olokoba Sulyman     HICA     Lafiagi     Bola Olukoju     Lai Mohammed     National Information Technology Development Agency     Shero     Women Radio     Tayo Alao     Maimunat Oloriegbe     Yusuf Lawal     Idowu Aremu     Ayegbeni