Kwara Court Jails American Prostitute Over N57 Milion Scam (SEE MORE)

Justice Mahmud Abdulgafar of the Kwara State Excessive Court docket sitting in Ilorin on Friday convicted and sentenced 20-year-old Oyelowo Mayowa Fawas from Atiba Native Authorities Space of Oyo State to 12-months in jail for offences bordering on cybercrime and possession of fraudulent funds.

A press release by the Financial and Monetary Crimes Fee, EFCC, spokesperson, Wilson Uwujaren, mentioned the defendant was prosecuted on two counts by the Ilorin Zonal Command of the Fee.

Mr Oyelowo, amongst others issues, disguised as ‘a white feminine skilled prostitute’, practising in the USA of America, to swindle his unsuspecting victims of assorted sums earlier than the lengthy arm of the regulation caught up with him.

Rely 2 of the cost reads: “That you just, Oyelowo Mayowa Fawas, someday between the months of June 2020 to June 2021 in Ilorin, Kwara State, inside the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court docket, did knowingly have beneath your management, the sum of N57,837,710.00 being paid to your Entry Financial institution, Account Quantity 0804708906, fairly suspected to have been unlawfully obtained and thereby dedicated an offence opposite to and punishable beneath Part 319A of the Penal Code’’.

The defendant pleaded responsible when the costs have been learn to him.

Following his plea, counsel to the EFCC, Harmless Mbachie, referred to as a witness, Udo Iniubong, an operative of the Fee to evaluate the details of the case. The witness instructed the court docket how credible intelligence led to the arrest of the defendant in Malete space of Kwara State.

The additional-judicial statements of the defendant, iPhones and laptop computer recovered from him on the level of arrest have been tendered and admitted in proof.

In his judgment, Justice Abdulgafar discovered Oyelowo responsible of the 2 counts and sentenced him to six months imprisonment on every rely with possibility of N100,000.00 (One Hundred Thousand Naira) effective on every rely.

The decide ordered that the telephones and laptop computer used to perpetrate the crime and the sum of $700 (Seven Hundred United State {Dollars}) raised as restitution by the defendant be forfeited to the Federal Authorities.