Court jails two Yahoo boys in Kwara

Date: 2019-12-08

Justice Mahmood Abdulgafar sitting at a Kwara State high court in Ilorin on Friday jailed two Internet fraudsters (popularly known as yahoo boys) for fraud.

The convicts, Okoro Raymond and Ogundowole Tosin, were sentenced to six months' imprisonment each for being found guilty on separate charges bordering on Internet fraud and other fraud related offences.

The Ilorin Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission secured the conviction of duo.

The charge against Raymond read in part, "That you, Okoro Raymond, sometime between March and September 2019, within the judicial division of the Kwara State High Court, fraudulently induced some unsuspecting Nigerians vide your created WhatsApp platform, Winners Chapel Investment, with your phone number 09010197532 to deliver properties to you, to wit: money totalling N200,000, under the guise of investing and making double gains, thereby committing an offence contrary to section 321 of the Penal Code and punishable under Section 324 of the same law."

The charge against Tosin read, That you, Ogundowole Tosin (aka Clarissa Doss) Sometime in October 2019 or thereabout at Ilorin, Kwara State, within the jurisdiction of this honourable court, attempted to commit an offence of cheating by pretending to be one Clarissa Doss, presenting yourself to be a white woman, a property agent who has property to lease at popular Castlegate, New Jersey, United States, to one Hillary Kurtz as it is contained in your Gmail account, thereby committing an offence contrary to section 95 and 321 of the Penal Code law and punishable under section 322 of the same law.

Source

 

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Leke Ogungbe     Abdulsalam A. Yusuf     Yakubu Danladi     Adesina Simon Sodiya     Cornelius Adebayo     Sunset Workers     Tosin Saraki     Quarry Royal Valley     Ambassador Kayode Laro     Abdulkadir Akanbi-Oke     Roseline Oni Aremu     Offorjama     Mansurat Amuda-Kannike     Yusuf Abubakar     Chief Of Staff     Isiaka Danmeromu     Olusegun Adeniyi     National Association Of Nigerian Students     Senate     Ibrahim Kayode Adeyemi     IESA     Oluwatoyin Lukman     Ridwan Agboola     Ramadhan     Unilorin     Muhammad Sirajo Aliyu     Mahmud Ayinla Giwa     Olabanji Orilonishe     TESCOM 2025     Hydroelectric Power Producing Areas Development Commission     John Kehinde Salako     Folaranmi Aro     NIPR     National Broadcasting Commission     Buhari     Shehu Alimi Foundation For Peace And Development     Gbenga Olawepo     Tsaragi-Share     JAMB     Ilesha-Baruba     Oke-Odo     Apaokagi     Bukola Ajikobi     Jimoh Olusola Imam     Ibrahim Taiwo     Twitter     Ganmo     Henry Olaosebikan     Air Peace     Age AbdulKareem     Haruna Olawale Sulaiman     Rapheal Ashaolu     Kabir Shagaya     Sadiq Buhari     Muhammad Ghali Alaaya     Garuba Alikinla Shittu     Awodun     KW-GIS     Kamoru Kadiri     Ejidongari     Transition Implementation Committee     Peter Obi     Abdulkadri Ahmad Alaiye     Fulani     Sardauna Of Ilorin     Aisha Gobir     Kwara United     Alanamu     David Oyerinola Adedunmoye     AbdulKareem Yusuf Danhawa     Zainab Abass     Wahab Kunle Shittu     Prince Bola Ajibola     Olukotun Of Ikotun     Arinola Lawal     Ramat Oganija     Michael Ologundea    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Sa\'adu Gambari     Ahmed Alhasssan     Opobiyi     Idi-Ape     Eleja Taiwo Banu     Muhammed Mahe Abdulkadir     Economic And Financial Crimes Commission     KW-GIS     Omupo     Toyin Falola     Kwara Metro Park     Danhawa     National Union Of Road Transport Workers     Lafiagi     C2c@kwarastate.gov.ng     Afolabi-Oshatimehin     Sheikh Ridhwanullah El-ilory     ER-KANG Mining Nigeria Company Limited     Nurudeen Mohammed     Musa Alhassan Buge     Abdulkadir Jimoh     Tafida Of Ilorin     Ronke Adeyemi     Bamikole Omishore     Kabir Shagaya     Waziri Yakubu Gobir     Bilikisu Oniyangi     Ilesha-Baruba-Gwanara     Bashiru Makama     Hassan Taiye Salam     Iliasu     Emir Of Kano     Rebecca Bake     Ghali Muhammed     Plat Technologies Limited     3MTT     Sunday Otokiti     Lateef Fagbemi     Law School Scholarship     Kanu Agabi     Ilorin.Info     Ayinde Oki     Sarah Jubril     Lola Ashiru     Gbugbu International Market     Abatemi-Usman     Ganmo     Salihu Ajia     Oluranti Idowu     Okin Malt     Ilorin Talaka Parapo     Onilorin     Hamidu Olowo     Sadiq Buhari     Kannike     Abiodun Oyedepo     Albert Ogunsola     Akanbi-Oke     Mahfouz Adedimeji     Towoju     Ilofa     Nnazua     Saidu Isa     REO CAKES     Oba-Solagberu     Abubakar Imam     Osi     Baboko     Ekiti     Bolakale Saka     Kwara State Fire Service     Jide Ashonibare     Garba Ayodele Wahab     Maryam Ado Bayero     Ibraheem Abdullateef     Omoniyi Ayinla     Mohammed Abduraheem