Court Jails Fashion Designer For Cybercrime In Kwara

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Justice Adebayo Yusuf of the Kwara State High Court sitting in Ilorin has sentenced a 24-year-old fashion designer, Muhammed Ayub, Odelade Samuel and Olowokere Jamiu, to six years imprisonment for offences bordering on internet fraud and possession of fraudulent funds.

The Ilorin Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, on Wednesday, arraigned the trio on separate charges.

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The charge against Odelade reads, “That you, Odelade Samuel sometime between January 2021 and December 2022 in Ilorin, Kwara state within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court did knowingly had under your control the gross sum of N3,513,549.00 paid into your bank account, which is reasonably suspected to be unlawfully obtained and thereby committed an offence contrary to and punishable under Section 319(A) of the penal code law and punishable under the same Section.”

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Upon the guilty pleas by the defendants, the prosecutors of the case, Sesan Ola and Rashidat Alao, on behalf of the Commission reviewed the facts of the cases through witnesses who are operatives of the EFCC.

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