Ilorin court convicts engineer, POS operator for cybercrime

Date: 2022-06-22

The Ilorin Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has secured the conviction of a self-professed engineer, Oyewole Maruf Damilare, from Ifedore Local Government Area of Osun State, for cybercrime offences.

Also jailed was one Olusanya Idowu Lukman, a POS operator from Remo North Local Government Area of Ogun State.

Justice Mahmud Abdulgafar of Kwara State High Court sitting in Ilorin convicted and sentenced the duo to various jail terms, having found them guilty of offences bordering on cybercrime and possession of proceeds of illegal activities levelled against them by the Ilorin Zonal command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC.

The Commission arraigned Oyewole on two count charges of cheating by personation and possession of proceeds of unlawful activities, while Olusanya was prosecuted on one count charge of personation for allegedly posing as Lena Kincy on Facebook to scam unsuspecting victims.

The defendants were reportedly arrested on April 22, 2022 at Agric Estate, Ilorin, the Kwara State Capital by operatives of EFCC following intelligence reports on the activities of some internet fraudsters operating in the area.

They pleaded guilty to their respective charges.

Rasheedat Alao, an operative of the anti-graft agency, who represented the Commission in the two cases reviewed the facts of the cases and presented witnesses who are operatives of the Commission.

The witnesses, while testifying tendered the extrajudicial statements of the defendants, different brands of phones recovered from them at the point of arrest and several fraudulent messages printed from their devices, which were admitted in evidence.

Alao, thereafter, urged the court to consider the guilty pleas, the extra judicial statements of the defendants and all the exhibits tendered before it to convict the defendants as charged.

Justice Abdulgafar, while delivering judgement, said the court had carefully evaluated the evidence placed before it, the guilty plea by the defendants and all the exhibits tendered and expressed conviction that the prosecution had not only established the elements of the alleged offences against the defendants, but had proved it beyond reasonable doubt.

The trial judge sentenced Oyewole to three months imprisonment on count 1 with option of N250,000 fine and six months' imprisonment on count 2 with fine option of N500,000.

The court ordered that one iPhone 12 which he used to perpetrate the crime and the sum of $400 US dollars, which he benefited from the illegal activities be forfeited to the Federal Government.

In the same vein, Justice Abdulgafar sentenced Olusanya to six months imprisonment with option N250,000 fine.

The judge also ordered that the iPhones 11 and Apple MacBook laptop, which the convict used to perpetrate the crime and the sum of $400 US dollars which he benefited from the crime be forfeited to the Federal Government.

Source

 

Cloud Tag: What's trending

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

Igbaja     Amos Sayo     Alabi Lawal     Rashidi Yekini     Akande Idowu Ayoola Muhammed     Abdulkadir Remi Hawawu     Kwara State Government     A.G.F Abdulrasaq     Adama Isa     Ahmed Dankaya     SUBEB     Awoye     Ilorin Amusement Park     Nurudeen Mohammed     Sardauna Of Ilorin     Abdulmumin Yinka Ajia     Jimoh Saadudeen Muhammed     Saka Isau     Senate President     Tunde Kazeem     Magaji Nda     Adijat Adebiyi     Sarah Alade     Junior Secondary School Certificate Examinations     Monthly Sanitation     KWAFFA     Bolaji Nagode     Manzuma     Mohammed Khadijat Kubura     ARMTI     Oke-Ero     Isiaka Yusuf     Alagbado     Economic And Financial Crimes Commission     Kwara 2023     Isaac Gbenle     Kwara Politics     Dar-Al-Handasah Consultants Ltd     Mazars Consulting     Razak Atunwa     Funke Adedoyin     Kwara State Sports Commission     Agboola Abdulraheem     David Adesina     Sheriff Olanrewaju     Emir Of Lafiagi     NYSC     Young Progressives Party     HICA     Kayode Oyin Zubair     Bibire Ajape     Aliyu Salihu     Baba Issa Awoye     Dairo Kunle Paul     Alfa Belgore     Samuel Olusegun Adedayo     Bello Oyebanji     Kawu Baraje     Yakubu Shaaba     Kamaldeen Ajibade     Kayode Bankole     Bashir Adigun     Abdulrahman Abdullahi Kayode     Abdulrasheed Akogun     Basit Olatunji     Ibrahim Bio     Aliyu Kora-Sabi     Chief Of Staff     Ridhwanullah Al-Ilory     Amasa     Iyaloja-General     Oladipo Akanmu Tolani     Ojuekun     Oke-Kura     Freshvine Nigeria Limited     Sabi     Kola Olota    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

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

Oke Sunna     Temi Kolawole     IEDPU     Centre For Peace And Strategic Studies     Mukhtar Shagaya     Abdulraufu Mustapha     Ahmad Olanrewaju Belgore     Bashir Adigun     Umaru Saro     Isau     Kanu Agabi     Bolakale Kawu Agaka     Olaoye B. Felix     Yahaya Dumoye     Abubakar Olusola Saraki     Pakata     IF-K     Valsolar Consultoria     Wale Oladepo     Idowu Aremu     Ajase-Ipo     Alao Ayotunde     Abubakar Kawu Baraje     Hussein Oloyede     Law School Scholarship     Federal Neuro-Psychiatric Hospital     Jare Olatundun     Hauwa Nuru     Metro Park     Ibrahim Oloriegbe     Monthly Sanitation Exercise     SWAN     Tricycle Owners Association Of Nigeria     Ado Bayero     Raliat Elelu-Habeeb     Tunde Akanbi     Sa\'adu Gambari     Oniwasi Agbaye     Kwarareports.com     Federal Polytechnic Offa     Lai Gobir     Oniwa     Maryam Nurudeen     Ibrahim Labaika     Iqra Books     Kwara North     Benin Republic     Opobiyi     NIRSAL     Oladipo Akanmu Tolani     Wahab Agbaje     Razak Atunwa     Tunji Ajanaku     AbdulQowiy Olododo     Ethical College     Ilorin     Bayer AG     Dorcas Afeniforo     Otunba Taiwo Joseph     Kayode Ogunlowo     John Kehinde Salako     Hikmah AbdulKareem     Gani Saadu     Societe Generale Bank Of Nigeria     KWSIEC     Abdullahi G. Mohammad     Sola Saraki Educational Foundation     Frootify     Kwara State Sports Commission     Y.A. Abdulkareem     Samuel Olusegun Adedayo     Ileloke     Yusuf Amuda Abubakar     Toyin Abdullahi     John Olajide Adedipe     Joseph Alex Offorjama     Admiralty Villa