Oyekan Abdulbaqqi Adedoyin, who claimed to be a prince from Kosofe, LGA, Lagos bagged a six-month jail term after a Kwara state high court imposed sentence for cybercrime.
The judge announced verdict in Ilorin as revealed by Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), spokesperson.
As revealed by the Uwujaren, witnesses who were from the anti-financial crime agency, EFCC narrated how the accused were arrested on this basis of solid and “credible intelligence”.
They two defendants pleaded guilty and upon their pleas, Andrew Akoja, counsel to the EFCC, led witnesses to review the facts of the two cases.
The prosecution also tendered items recovered from the defendants at the point of arrest including phones, laptops, and fraudulent messages printed from the defendants’ email addresses, which the court admitted in evidence.
The presiding judge, while delivering judgment, said that the court evaluated all the material evidence placed before it, the plea of guilt, and the valid
and truthful testimonies of the prosecution witnesses.
The judge thereafter sentenced Oyekan to six months imprisonment with an option of a fine of N150,000.
The court also ordered the forfeiture of his iPhone and a Dell laptop, which the convict was said to have used in the crime.
For Oni, the judge delivered a one-year sentence with an option of a fine of N350,000.
He also ordered the forfeiture of the convict’s phone to the federal government.
The judge ordered the offender to make immediate payment in restitution to his victim through EFCC within 78 hours or would face another additional 6 months in jail.
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