Akinluyi, four others jailed for cyber fraud in Kwara
By Stephen Olufemi Oni, Ilorin
A 25-year-old staff member of Ekiti State Water Corporation, Opeyemi Akinluyi, has been convicted by Justice Muhammed Sani of the Federal High Court sitting in Iloriin, the Kwara state capital, for offences bordering on cyber fraud.
Akinluyi was convicted alongside Ajibade Timileyin Emmanuel and Ezekiel Oluwaseun Temitope. Also convicted were Abbas Olatayo Ojo and one Kareem Quadri.
The convicts were prosecuted on separate charges by the Ilorin Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) before different Justices of both the Federal High Court and Kwara State High Court in Ilorin.
Upon arraignment, the defendants pleaded guilty to the charge preferred against each of them.
In his judgment, Justice Sani sentenced the trio of Akinluyi, Emmanuel and Oluwaseun to six months imprisonment each with option of fine of N200, 000 (Two Hundred Thousand Naira Only) each. The judge also ordered the forfeiture of the convicts’ phones and laptop, which were used to perpetrate the crime and the restitution of their various victims.
Justice Akinpelu of the Kwara State High Court, Ilorin while deciding the case of Olatayo and Quadri, sentenced each of the defendants to six months imprisonments. While Olatayo was given an option of fine of N150,000 (One Hundred and Fifty Thousand Naira Only) on the lone count against him, N150,000 (One Hundred and Fifty Thousand Naira Only) was given as option of fine on each of the two counts against Quadri.
Justice Akinpelu also ordered the forfeiture of the convicts’ phones, which were used to perpetrate the crime to the Federal Government as well as the restitution of their various victims.