Justice Served: Courts Sentence Internet Fraudsters and Unlicensed Bureau De Change Operator

Date: 2024-10-15

Daily Post reports that Justice Abimbola Awogboro of the Federal High Court sitting in Ilorin has sentenced Yakubu Aminu to 200 hours of community service for engaging in bureau de change activities without a valid licence.

In a related development, the Kwara State High Court, under the leadership of Justice Hammed Gegele, sentenced Abdulalahi Abdulrasaq Omotosho and Akeem Ibrahim Salaudeen for their involvement in internet fraud. The Ilorin Zonal Directorate of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) had arraigned the three individuals on separate charges on Wednesday, October 9, 2024.

The charge sheet on Yakubu by the anti-graft agency read, “That you, Yakubu Aminu sometime in July 2024, at Chikanda Market, Yashikira District, Baruten Local Government Area, Kwara State, within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court did carry on, other financial business, to wit: Bureau De Change Business without a valid licence issued by the Central Bank of Nigeria contrary to Section 15 (5) of the Banks and other Financial Institutions Act, 2020 and punishable under Section 57 (5) (B) of the same Act.”

In respect of Akeem, the charge reads, “that you, Akeem Ibrahim Salaudeen between 3rd December 2018 and 8th November 2024, in Ilorin, Kwara State within the jurisdiction of the Honourable Court, did knowingly had under your control the sum of N4,069, 000.00 in your bank account number 2104916025, with the name Akeem Ibrahim Salaudeen, with the United Bank of Africa Plc, which you knew to be proceeds of criminal conduct and thereby committed an offence contrary to and punishable under Section 319 (a) of the Penal Code Laws of Northern Nigeria.”

The defendants pleaded guilty when the charges were read to them, according to a statement by the Head, Media and Publicity of the agency, Dele Oyewale.

The court thereafter convicted and sentenced the defendants to various jail terms relying on the credibility of the cases presented before it and the unchallenged evidence of the prosecution.

Justice Awogboro sentenced Aminu to 200 hours community service without an option of fine.

The judge also ordered that the sum of 50,000cfa and N368,500 recovered from him at the point of arrest be forfeited to the Federal Government.

Justice Gegele on his part sentenced the duo of Akeem and Abdullahi to six months imprisonment each, with an option of N150,000 fine.

The sum of N4,069,000.00 recovered from Akeem, alongside his iphone 11 and $600 UD dollars recovered from Abdullahi together with iphone 11 pro max, being proceeds of their crimes were forfeited to the Federal Government.

 

Cloud Tag: What's trending

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

Abdulrahman Abdullahi Kayode     Yahaya Oloriegbe     Adedipe     UTME     CACOVID     Yakubu Dogara     Nigerian Correctional Service     Abdulrauf Yusuf     NTA Ilorin     Omotoso Musa     NSCIA     Kwara Polytechnic     Omotoso     Facemasks     Olufolake Abdulrazaq     Yusuf Zulu-Gambari     Sheriff Olanrewaju     Maigida Soludero Transit     Adijat Adebiyi     Sidikat Uthman Ajibola     Muhammad Akande Olarewaju Odunade     Adeniyi Ojo     Abdulsalam Firdaous Amosa     National Pilot     SGBN     Hikmah AbdulKareem     Oba Abdulkadir La\'aro     Bamidele Adegoke Oladimeji     Radio Kwara     Magaji Are     Sabi     Yusuf Abdulwahab     Sadiq Buhari     Harrison Osauwagboe     Lola Ashiru     Chief Imam Of Lafiagi     Bola Sagaya     Abdulmumini Sanni Jawondo     Taofik Abdulkareem     Charcoal     Olatunji Ayeni     Just Event Online     Laolu Saraki     NFAI     Just Law Forum     Kwara State University Of Education     Ibrahim Abduquadri Abikan     Ayobami Akanbi     Abubakar Aliagan     Makama Of Ilorin     Kayode Yusuf     Femtech     Obasanjo     Jani Ibrahim     Oloje     AbdulRazaq Jiddah     Ibrahim Agboola Gambari     Abiodun Musa Aibinu     Edret Sabi Abel     Mahfouz Adedimeji     Ibrahim Abiodun     Saba Mamman Daniel     Kwara Hotel     Unicontinental Construction Company     Femi Oladiji     Ministry Of Women Affairs And Social Development     Lateef Fagbemi     Jare Olatundun     Bayo Onimago     Oyelere Oyinloye     Eghe Igbinehin     Muritala Olarewaju     Samuel Adaramola     Agboola Babatunde     TIC     Rihanat Ajia     Lanre Jimoh    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

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

Sulu Gambari     Abdulraufu Mustapha     Ayoade Akinnibosun     AGILE Programme     Countryside Emerging Leaders Fellowship     Code Of Conduct Tribunal     GGDSS Pakata     Omotoso Musa     Babaita     Ahmed Idris Mohammed     Kayode Oyin-Zubair     Tsado Manman     Iyiola Oyedepo     Na\'Allah     SSUCOEN     Photo News     Opolo Global Innovation Limited     Ilorin     Mohammed Ibrahim     Atunwa     Emmanuel Olatunji Adesoye     Abdulrahman Abdulrasaq     Hamidat Sulyman-Yusuf     Sabo-Oke     ER-KANG Mining Nigeria Company Limited     Jimoh Olusola Imam     Muslim Media Watch Group Of Nigeria     AGM Professional Services     Raymond Olaitan     Haruna Tambiri Mohammed     EFCC     Ado Bayero     Balogun Gambari     Ramadhan     Muslim Stakeholders Of Kwara State     Doyin Awoyale     Abdulfatah Ahmed     Onilu     Sambo Murtala     Olaiya Zuberu     Kayode Ibrahim     College Of Education     Abdulkadir Jimoh     Busari Alabi Alausa     Just Law Forum     Majlis For Sadakah, Zakat And Waqf     Lasiele Alabi Yahaya     Jimoh Lambe Abdulkareem     Shehu Jimoh     Imodoye Writer’s Enclave     Obuh     Ademola Kiyesola     John Olajide Adedipe     Najim Yaasin     QuickWin     Third Estate     Lawal Arinola Kudirat     Royal FM     Ilorin General Hospital     Segun Abifarin     Isiaka Saka Opobiyi     FOMWAN     A.E. Afolabi     Oluranti Idowu     Gbajabiamila     Abdulquowiyu Olododo     Coronavirus     Makama Of Kaiama     Kwara State Fish Farmers Association     Amuda Aluko     Javed Khan     State Bureau Of Internal Revenue     Akanbi-Oke     Usman Yunusa     Senior Special Assistant On Student Affairs     Abdulrauf Yusuf     Kwara State Television (KWTV)