24-year-old undergraduate jailed over N74m Internet fraud in Kwara

Date: 2022-01-21

A 24-year-old undergraduate of Kwara State University, Malete, Alonge Toyyib, was on Thursday sentenced to one-year imprisonment by Kwara State High Court over offences bordering on cybercrime and possession of fraudulent funds.

Justice Adenike Akinpelu of the state High Court sitting in Ilorin sentenced Alonge to prison after the court found him guilty of the two counts levelled against him by the Ilorin Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission.

The anti-crime agency charged him with two charges before the Court.

One of the charges against him read, "That you, Alonge Toyyib Alao, sometime in April 2020 to April 2021 in Ilorin, Kwara State within the jurisdiction of this Honorable Court did knowingly have under your control N74,753,261 paid into your Fidelity Bank Account No 63*362**** which is reasonably suspected to be unlawfully obtained."

The offence was contrary to Section 319A of the Penal Code Law and punishable under the same law.

Alonge pleaded guilty to the charge.

Following his plea, counsel to the EFCC, Rasheedat Alao, presented a witness, Kamaluddeen Yahayah, to review the facts of the case.

Yahayah, who is an operative of the EFCC, in his evidence, narrated the circumstances that led to Alonge's arrest.

Some of the items recovered from him, which included a car – Lexus 350, phone, and Apple laptop as well as the fraudulent messages printed from his email were presented and admitted in evidence at the court.

Alao urged the court to consider the testimonies of the sole prosecution witness, the "guilty plea" by the defendant, and the exhibits tendered as well as the provisions of the law to pass judgment.

Justice Akinpelu, in her judgement on the case, sentenced Alonge to six months imprisonment on each of the two counts with N100,000 as fine on each count.

The judge ordered that the Lexus 350, phone, and laptop recovered from the undergraduate at the point of arrest be forfeited to the Federal Government.

Source

 

Cloud Tag: What's trending

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

Curfew     Olam Food Ingredients     Vasolar Consultoria     Wahab Isa     Abdulrazak Shehu Akorede     Alabi Lawal     Oloje     Ambassador Kayode Laro     Yakubu Mohammed Abdullahi     Muhammed Abdullahi     Joseph Daudu     Abdullahi AbdulMajeed     Elerin Of Erin-Ile     Oke-Ero     FERMA     Sa\'ad Alanamu     Femi Agbaje     Kwara State Fish Farmers Association     Shettima     Firdaos Amasa     Chief Imam Of Offa     Akom Construction And Engineering Synergy Ltd     Tunde Oyawoye     Olokoba Abdullahi Ayinla     Amuda Musbau     UITH     Mohammed Yisa     Agboola Abdulraheem     Abdul Jimoh Mohammed     Centre For Peace And Strategic Studies     Ahmed     Tafida Of Kaiama     Ganmo Power Sub-Station     Oba Abdulkadir La\'aro     TESCOM     Oloyede     Yusuf Amuda Gobir     Amos Sayo     Adesoye College     Mohammed Tunde-Jimoh     Nupe     Ayo Salami     Bashir Badawi     LEAH Charity Foundation     Quareeb     Shao     KWIRS     LAK Jimoh     Odolaye Aremu     Bamidele Adegoke     Mutawalle     Abdullahi Samari     Code Of Conduct Tribunal     IEDPU     Yusuf Abubakar     Emir Of Lafiagi     Kubra Kazum     Abdulganiyu Salahudeen     Rotimi Samuel Olujide     Isiaq Khadeejah     Mahmud Babatunde Baker     Taofeek Ibraheem     Oyun     Village Alive Development Association     Chief Imam Of Lafiagi     Iponrin     AbdulRahman Saad     Medview Airlines     Doyin Group     Emir Of Ilorin     Mansur Alfanla     Www.Kwarareports.com     Muhammad-Mustapha Suleiman     Mutawali     Suleiman Abubakar     Mazars Consulting     Unilorin FM    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

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

Musa Alhassan Buge     Kwara State Fish Farmers Association     Jimoh Bashir     Hassanat Bello     Doyin Group     Mumini Ishola Hanafi     Kayode Issa     Abubakar Usman Jos     Unilorin FM     Abdulrasheed Na\'Allah     Azeez Salawu     Ajasse-Ipo     Nupe     Yeketi     Saka Keji     Col. Taiwo     Suraj Tunji Oyewale     Yoruba     Jumoke Monsura Gafar     Mary Arinde     International Vocational Centre     Suleman Abubakar     Farouk Salim     Wahab Kunle Shittu     Lawan     Mahe Abdulkadir     Abubakar Ndakene     AbdulRazaq Abubakar Jiddah     Olabode Towoju     Balogun Gambari     Mohammed Lawal Bagega     Ijagbo     Adesina Simon Sodiya     CT Ayeni     Coalition Of Kwara North Groups     Toyosi Thomas     Budo Egba     Lanre Aremu     Mubarak Oladosu     Abdulmalik Bashir Mopelola Risikatullahi     Al-Ilory     Harafat E. Mukadam     Garba Ado Sanni     Grillo     Valsolar Consortium     Summit University     Ibrahim Taiwo     Aisha Ahman-Pategi     Solomon Edoja     Olusegun Adeniyi     Al-Adaby     Wole Oke     Tafida Of Ilorin     Maja     Kunbi Titiloye     Bisi Oyeleke     Mohammed Katsina Ahmed     Ilorin West     Kwara State Fire Service     Mansur Alfanla     Baruten     Laduba     Muslimah Entrepreneurship Forum     Kola Bukoye     Lai Mohammed     Oniwasi Agbaye     Mohammed Halidu     Bukola Saraki     Ahmed Alhasssan     Olokoba Abdullahi Ayinla     Moses Adekanye     Akume     Ezekiel Yissa Benjamin     Emir Of Lafiagi     Abdulkadir Orire     Esinrogunjo     Salary