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Lagos Prince And One Other Jailed For Cybercrime In Ilorin

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Lagos Prince And One Other Jailed For Cybercrime In Ilorin

Justice Sikiru Oyinloye of the Kwara State Excessive Courtroom sitting in Ilorin has slammed a 6-month jail time period on one Oyekan Abdulbaqqi Adedoyin, a self-acclaimed prince from Kosofe Native Authorities Space of Lagos State, for offences bordering on cybercrime.

Prince Oyekan, 25, was jailed alongside one Oni Stephen Oluwaferanmi from Ilesha, Osun State.

The duo of Prince Oyekan and Oni had been prosecuted on separate prices by the Ilorin Zonal Command of the Financial and Monetary Crimes Fee (EFCC).

They pleaded responsible when the fees had been learn to them.

Upon their pleas, counsel to the EFCC, Andrew Akoja, led witnesses to evaluate the details of the 2 circumstances. The witnesses who’re operatives of the Fee narrated how the defendants had been arrested primarily based on credible intelligence.

The prosecution tendered gadgets recovered from the defendants on the level of arrest together with telephones, laptops and fraudulent messages printed from the defendants’ electronic mail addresses, which the court docket admitted in proof.

Justice Oyinloye whereas delivering judgment on the circumstances yesterday, stated that the court docket had fastidiously evaluated all the fabric proof positioned earlier than it, the plea of guilt and the uncontroverted testimonies of the prosecution witnesses.

He held that the prosecution had proved its case past affordable doubt

Consequently, he convicted and sentenced the defendants.

The decide sentenced Prince Oyekan to 6 months imprisonment with an possibility of a fantastic of N150, 000 (One Hundred and Fifty Thousand Naira). The Courtroom additionally ordered the forfeiture of his iPhone and a Dell Laptop computer, which the convict used to perpetrate the crime to the Federal Authorities.

In the identical vein, Justice Oyinloye sentenced Oni to 1 yr imprisonment with an possibility of a fantastic of N350, 000 (Three Hundred and Fifty Thousand Naira). He additionally ordered the forfeiture of the convict’s cellphone to the Federal Authorities. As well as, the decide ordered the convict to pay $775 (Seven Hundred and Seventy-5 United States {Dollars}) as restitution to his sufferer by means of the EFCC inside 78 hours or danger one other six months imprisonment.