Ex-Deputy Rector’s son, two others jailed for cybercrime in Kwara
By Stephen Olufemi Oni, Ilorin
The Ilorin Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), has secured the conviction of the son of a former Deputy Rector of the Federal Polytechnic, Offa, Olaoye Jamiu Olarewaju, alongside one Badmus Ridwan Moyosore, a native of Ibadan, the capital of Oyo State, and one Abdulsalam Ibrahim from Malete in Moro Local Government Area of Kwara State
for offences bordering on cybercrime.
The trio were prosecuted on separate charges by the anti-graft agency before Justice Adenike Akinpelu of the Kwara state High Court sitting in Ilorin and they pleaded guilty to their various charges.
Following their pleas, Counsel to the EFCC, Rasheedat Alao, called witnesses who are operatives of the Commission to review the facts of the cases.
Testifying, the witness told the court that the defendant fraudulently defrauded one of his victims to the tune of $2000, while the testimony against Badmus revealed that the defendant swindled his victim the sum of $200. In the same vein, the testimony against Abdulsalam was to the effect that he was involved in “sugar baby relationship scam” and that over N18m suspected to be proceeds of unlawful activities passed through his account.
The extra-judicial statements of the defendants, fraudulent documents printed from their devices and items recovered from them at the point of arrest were tendered and admitted in evidence.
Alao thereafter urged the court to take judicial notice of the pleas of the defendants, exhibits tendered and the testimonies of the prosecution witnesses to convict the defendants as charged.
In her judgment, Justice Akinpelu held that the EFCC had established its cases against the defendants and consequently pronounced the defendants guilty.
The judge sentenced Olaoye to a term of six months imprisonment with N150, 000.00 as option of fine. The court also ordered that iphone which he used to perpetrate the crime and the draft of N400,000.00 which he raised as restitution be forfeited to the Federal Government.
Similarly, Justice Akinpelu sentenced Badmus to six months imprisonment with N100, 000.00 as option of fine. Two phones and laptop used by the convict to perpetrate the crime were also forfeited to the Federal Government.
In the same token, Justice Akinpelu sentenced Abdulsalam to six months imprisonment with N150, 000.00 as option of fine. The judge also ordered the forfeiture of a Toyota Camry Car, two phones and laptop used by the convict as instrumentality of the crime to the Federal Government.