Justice Adenike Akinpelu of the Kwara State High Court sitting in Ilorin on Tuesday sentenced two men, Kamaldeen Yusuf, and Sulyman Omotosho to six-month imprisonment each for offences bordering on Internet fraud.

Kamaldeen is a self-styled real estate manager, while Sulyman is from the Ilorin West Local Government Area of Kwara State.

The duo were among the 30 suspected Internet fraudsters arrested in Malete, Moro LGA of Kwara State on September 19, 2021, by operatives of the EFCC during a sting operation.

The convicts were prosecuted on one count each by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission.

Upon arraignment, the defendants pleaded guilty to the charges against them.

The EFCC counsel, Innocent Mbachie and Rasheedat Alao, called two witnesses to review the facts of the cases.

The witnesses, who were operatives of the EFCC, tendered in evidence several incriminating documents printed from the defendants' devices, their extra-judicial statements and the mobile phones used to perpetrate the crime.

The counsel urged the court to consider the evidence placed before the court, the plea of guilt and all the exhibits tendered.

Delivering judgement on the two cases, Justice Akinpelu sentenced Kamaldeen and Sulyman to six-month imprisonment each with a fine option of N100,000 each.

She also ordered the forfeiture of the mobile phones recovered from the convicts to the Federal Government.