Justice Efe Ikponmwonba of Edo State Excessive Court docket sitting in Benin Metropolis has convicted and sentenced 5 web fraudsters to varied jail phrases.
The Financial and Monetary Crimes Fee, EFCC, confirmed this in a submit printed on their official web page on Wednesday.
The convicts have been recognized as Jacob Sunday, Olarenwaju Adewale, Emmanuel Tomiwa Ajayi, Adewale Elufadejin Festus and Seyi Olumeko.
In response to the submit, “They have been jailed after pleading responsible to one-count separate cost bordering on possession of fraudulent paperwork upon arraignment by the benin Zonal Command of the EFCC.”
The fees in opposition to Ajayi reads: “That you simply, Emmanuel Tomiwa Ajayi on or about twelfth February 2024 in Benin Metropolis, Edo State, throughout the jurisdiction of this honourable courtroom did have i your possession paperwork which you knew or must have identified include a fails pretence and thereby dedicated an offence opposite to part 6 and eight (b) of the Advance Payment Fraud and Different Fraud Associated Offences Act.2006 and punishable beneath part 1(3) of similar Act.
“All of the defendants pleaded responsible to their respective prices after they have been learn to them, prompting prosecution counsels, I,Ok Agwai, Ok.Y Bello, A.A Ibrahim to hope the courtroom to convict and sentence them accordingly.
“Nevertheless, counsel to the defendants pleaded with the courtroom to mood justice with mercy as they’ve grow to be remorseful for his or her actions.
“Justice Ikponmwonba convicted and sentenced Sunday, Adewale, Olumeko and Festus to a few years imprisonment or a high-quality of One Hundred Thousand Naira every, whereas Ajayi bagged three years imprisonment or a high-quality of Two Hundred Thousand Naira.
“The choose ordered that the convicts forfeit their telephones, balances of their numerous financial institution accounts being proceeds of crime to the Federal Authorities of Nigeria. All of the convicts are to undertake in writing to be of excellent behaviour afterward.
“The convicts’ street to the correctional centre started following their arrest by operatives of Benin Zonal Command of the Fee primarily based on actionable intelligence concerning their involvement in fraudulent actions.”
