Justice Abimbola Awogboro of the Federal
High Court sitting in Ilorin has sentenced one Yakubu Aminu to 200 (Two
Hundred) hours community service for carrying out bureau de change businesses without a valid licence.
Similarly,
a Kwara State High Court presided over by Justice Hammed Gegele also jailed the
duo of Abdulalahi Abdulrasaq Omotosho and Akeem Ibrahim Salaudeen for
involvement in internet fraud -related crime.
The
Ilorin Zonal Directorate of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC
had on Wednesday October 9, 2024 arraigned the trio before the courts on
separate charges.
The
charge against Yakubu reads:
“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”
The
charge against Akeem reads:
“That
you, Akeem Ibrahim Salaudeen between 3rd December
2018 and 8th November 2024, in Ilorin, Kwara State within
the jurisdiction of Honourable Court, did knowingly had under your
control the sum of N4,069, 000.00 (Four Million, Sixty Nine Thousand
Naira Only) 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.
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 (Two Hundred) hours community service without an option of fine. The
judge also ordered that the sum of 50,000cfa and N368,500 (Three Hundred and
Sixty-Eight Thousand, Five Hundred Naira Only) 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 (One Hundred and Fifty Thousand
Naira only). The sum of N4,069, 000.00 (Four Million, Sixty Nine Thousand
Naira Only) recovered from Akeem alongside his iphone 11 and $600 (Six Hundred
Dollars) recovered from Abdulahi together with iphone 11 pro max, being
proceeds of their crimes were forfeited to the Federal Government.
The
convicts bagged their imprisonment when they were arrested for internet-related
fraud. They were investigated, charged to court and convicted.
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