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.

Valsolar Consortium     Olayinka Olaogun     Kanu Agabi     Kumbi Titilope     Yetunde Balogun     Ilorin Talaka Parapo     Abdulfatai Salman Baakini     Ayobami Akanbi     Hydro-electric Power Producing Areas Development Commission     Christopher Odetunde     Rebecca Olanrewaju     Tanke Flyover Bridge     Ijagbo     Adebayo Mohammed Kamaldeen     HYPPADEC     Medview Airlines     Inside Kwara     Iyeru Grammar School     Olufolake Abdulrazaq     Oba-Solagberu     Jumoke F. Ajao     KWASAA     Seni Saraki     Ado Ibrahim     Rotimi Atere     Raymond Olaitan     Farouk Salim     Bayo Mohammed Onimode     Olatunde Olukoya     Aminat Ahmed     Bank Of Industry     Amina El-Imam     Afolasade Opeyemi Kemi     Kwabes     Olateju Lukman     Voices Of Tomorrow     Ayodele Kuburat Olaosebikan     Olabanji Orilonishe     Muhammad Yahya     Saidu Yaro Musa     Yashikira     Erubu     Bankole Omishore     2017 Budget     Muazam Nayaya     Suleiman Alege Kuranga     Abdulwahab Ololele     Kwara Consultative Forum     Kwara State Coalition Of Business And Professional Associations     Sarah Alade     Isiaka Gold     Saliu Shola Taofeek     Omotoso Musa     Issa Manzuma     Kwara Basketball Association     Musbau A. Akanji     Kwara State Government     Bahago     Oya State     Ilorin East/South Federal Constituency     Rafiu Ibrahim     GRA     Lateef Alagbonsi     David Oyedepo     Toyin Falola     Abdulraheem Yusuf     Leke Ogungbe     Roheemat Hammed     Alaiye     Gbajabiamila     Segun Olawoyin     Bola Magaji     Wahab Issa     Presidential Election     Aliyu Salihu     Arandun     Otunba Taiwo Joseph    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

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

Mopelola Abdulmaliq-Bashir     N-Power     Musa Alhassan Buge     Alabe     Aliyu Adebayo     Abdulbaqi Jimoh     GANZY     Akorede     Emmanuel Bello     Communication Network Support Services     Taibat Ayinke Ahmed     Ghali Muhammed     JUSUN     Elelu     Gbenga Adebayo     Suleiman Abubakar     Kayode Oyin-Zubair     Ishaq Salman     Kayode Zubair     Dar-Al-Handasah Consultants     Wahab Kunle Shittu     Adamu Atta     Oluronke Adeyemi     Babata     Abdullahi G. Mohammad     Makama     GGDSS Pakata     Fareedah Dankaka     Omotoso Musa     Shehu Alimi Foundation     John Kehinde Salako     Shehu Raheem Adaramaja     Rotimi Oyedepo     Oba Of Jebba     Balogun Gambari     Lawyers Unite Against Corruption     Tunde Saad     Memunat Monsuma     Ibrahim Oloriegbe     Afetu Of Alabe     Abdulrasheed Na\'Allah     David Oyerinola Adedunmoye     Isapa     Bello John Olanrewaju     Suleiman Rotimi Iliasu     Isiaka Danmeromu     Kemi Adeosun     Toyin Saraki     Olokoba Abdullahi Ayinla     MINILS     Fatimat Saliu     Ganmo     Saka Abimbola Isau     Bello Abubakar     Mumini Ishola Hanafi     Yusuf Abubakar     Federal Allocation     CACOVID Palliatives     Tafida Of Ilorin     Lawal Olohungbebe     Kaosarah Adeyi     Babaloja-General     Babs Iwarere     Nigerian Medical Association     Olatinwo     Ahmed Alhasssan     Turaki     Plat Technologies Limited     Tafidan Kaiama     Asa     National Pilot     Olugbense     Baruba     Aliyu Sabi     Ilorin Emirate Stakeholders Forum     Abdulrosheed Okiki     Kwara Consultative Forum