Court jails six over fraud in Kwara

Abdullateef Fowewe

Six persons have been convicted and sentenced to jail for fraud by the Kwara State High Court, sitting in Ilorin.

The convicts were prosecuted by the Ilorin Zonal Directorate of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on multiple charges that bordered on retention of proceeds of criminal activities, cheating, impersonation and internet fraud.

This was made known in a statement by the the anti-graft agency, on Saturday.

The statement partly reads, “Justices Haleema Saleeman and Mahmud Abdulgafar of the Kwara State High Court, sitting in Ilorin have convicted and+ sentenced six persons to jail for fraud.

“The convicts are: Akingbehin Temitope Oluwaseyi, Ajayi Elijah Olaoluwa, Samsom Babatunde Ilesanmi, Quadri Olamilekan Lamidi, Kolawole Kehinde Moses and Olatunji Elija Olabisi.”

According to the statement a car dealer, Oluwaseyi, 25, Olaoluwa, Ilesanmi and Lamidi were dragged before Justice Saleeman while the duo of Moses and Olabisi were prosecuted before Justice Abdulgafar.

The charge against Oluwaseyi reads, “That you, Akingbehin Temitope Oluwaseyi, sometime between 2021 and 2024 at Offa, within  the judicial division of the Kwara State High Court, did retain the control of the gross sum of N2,707,562 (Two Million, Seven Hundred and Seven Thousand, Five Hundred and Sixty-Two Naira) in your Opay account number 09064776590 being the sum paid to you which you knew to be proceed of criminal conduct, thereby committed an offence contrary to and punishable under Section 17(a) and (b) of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (Establishment) Act 2004.”