Justices Abimbola Awogboro of the Federal High Court
sitting in Ilorin and Sulaiman Akanbi and Haleema Saleeman of the
Kwara State High Court have convicted and sentenced five internet
fraudsters to various jail terms.
The convicted persons are Ayinla Abiodun Abdulmajid,
Yusuf Abdulazeez Onimisi, Muhammed Zayad Eneye, Abdulbasit Abdulmumeen, and
Victor Onucheyo Anibe. They were arraigned on separate charges by the Ilorin
Zonal Directorate of the EFCC.
Specifically, Abdulmajid, Onimisi and Eneye were
jailed by Justice Awogboro while Abdulmumeen and Anibe were jailed by
Justices Akanbi and Saleeman of the Kwara respectively.
The charge against Abdulmajid reads:
"That you, AYINLA ABIODUN ABDULMAJID (Alias:
Micheal Cavezza) sometime between March and May, 2025 within the Judicial
Division of the Federal High Court, did fraudulently impersonate one Michael
Cavezza vide your google hangout account with the intent to obtain from one
Kirsty Reid and did obtain the gross sum of $1,003 (One Thousand, Three USD)
thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 22 (2)(b)(ii) of the
Cybercrime (Prohibition & Prevention ) Act 2015 and punishable under
section 22 (2)(b)(IV) of the same Act"
The defendants pleaded guilty when the charges
were read to them
Based on their pleas, prosecution counsel,
Innocent Mbachie, Sesan Ola and Mustapha Kaigama reviewed the facts of the
cases by calling witnesses through whom they tendered the extra-judicial
statements of the defendants as well as items recovered from them at the point
of arrest.
The lawyers, thereafter, urged the court to
convict the defendants accordingly.
In his judgment, Justice Awogboro sentenced Abdulmajid
to 9 months imprisonment without an option of fine and ordered the
forfeiture of the sum of $702 (Seven Hundred and Two United States Dollars)
which he benefited from the unlawful activities and one iphone 14 pro max,
Redmi phone and one hp laptop to the Federal Government.
The Judge also sentenced Onimisi to three
months imprisonment without an option of fine. The Judge ordered that the
sum of $300 (Three Hundred United States Dollars) he benefited from his
criminal conduct and one Samsung S31 be forfeited to the Federal
Government.
In the same vein, the court sentenced Muhammed to 400
hours community service without an option of fine and ordered the forfeiture of
the convict's hp laptop.
Justice Akanbi on his part sentenced Abdulmumeen to
two years imprisonment or an option of N400,000 (Four Hundred
Thousand Naira Only). Additionally, the convict was ordered to sweep the
premises of the Kwara State High Court for two months to be supervised by the
Nigeria Correctional Service Probationer Officer, while the sum of $145 (One
Hundred and Forty-Five United States Dollars) and one iphone 11.
he benefited from the criminal conduct were
forfeited to the Federal Government.
Similarly, Justice Saleeman sentenced Anibe to
two years imprisonment or an option of fine N600,000 (Six Hundred
Thousand Naira Only). The court ordered that the sum of N4million he
restituted, one iphone 16 promax and a Samsung phone be forfeited to the
Federal Government.
All the convicts bagged their imprisonment when they
were arrested for internet-related offences. They were charged to court
and jailed.
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