Court Sends Internet Fraudster to Jail in Ilorin
Justice Mahmud Abdulgafar of the Kwara State High Court sitting in Ilorin, on Monday, convicted and sentenced Usman Harun to six months imprisonment for internet fraud.
According to a statement by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Harun was jailed after pleading guilty to a one-count separate charge bordering on obtaining under false pretences.
The charge reads: “That you, Usman Harun sometime in February 2024 in Malete, Kwara State, within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court, did knowingly have under your control the sum of Fifteen Thousand Naira (N15,000) in your account number 000380275 domiciled in Jaiz Bank Plc, which you knew to be unlawfully obtained and thereby committed an offence contrary to and punishable Section 319 of the Penal Code”
Justice Mahmud Abdulgafar of the Kwara State High Court sitting in Ilorin, on Monday, convicted and sentenced Usman Harun to six months imprisonment for internet fraud.
According to a statement by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Harun was jailed after pleading guilty to a one-count separate charge bordering on obtaining under false pretences.
The charge reads: “That you, Usman Harun sometime in February 2024 in Malete, Kwara State, within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court, did knowingly have under your control the sum of Fifteen Thousand Naira (N15,000) in your account number 000380275 domiciled in Jaiz Bank Plc, which you knew to be unlawfully obtained and thereby committed an offence contrary to and punishable Section 319 of the Penal Code”
The defendant pleaded guilty when the charge was read to him.
Counsel to the EFCC, Charles Oni reviewed the facts of the case and tendered in evidence items recovered from Harun at the point of arrest.
Justice Abdulgafar thereafter convicted and sentenced Harun to six months imprisonment with an option of a fine of one hundred thousand Naira and ordered that the phone used to execute the crime and money which the convict benefited from the crime be forfeited to the Federal Government.
Cloud Tag: What's trending
Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.
CCT Fola Consultant Mansurat Amuda-Kannike KWASSIP Bola Iyabo Ibiyeye Adisa Ganmo Power Sub-Station Tayo Alao Baboko Primary School Apaola Ilorin Emirate Stakeholders Forum Olosi Of Osi Sulyman Abdulkareem Hassan Abdulazeez Elewu March 28 Orisa Bridge Aishat Sulu-Gambari Soffiyyallah Kamaldeen Kwara University Of Education Ilesha-Baruba Fareedah Dankaka Yakub Ali-Agan Sa\'ad Alanamu Salihu Jibril Garbi Ibraheem Adeola Katibi Ramadhan Salami Adekunle Irepodun Abdullahi Samari Mubarak Oladosu Tunde Akanbi Police Commissioner Onilorin Of Ilorin Nigerian Army Dar-Al-Handasah Consultants Wahab Issa Olatunji Moronfoye Bashiru Makama Segun Ogunsola Femi Ogunsola James Kolo Abdulkadir Orire Tunji Ajanaku Maryam Ado Bayero Ibrahim Kayode Adeyemi Salake AGM Professional Services Mutawalle Crystal Corner Shops Afonja Descendants Union Col. Adedipe Eruku Ayodele Kuburat Olaosebikan NIPOGA Kwara State Pension Board National Party Of Nigeria Wahab Olasupo Egbewole Lukman Oyebanji Fagbemi Najim Yaasin Special Agro-industrial Processing Zone Oniwa Ubandoma Of Ilorin Gafaru Olayiwola Olorisade Ilorin Muslim Community Labaeka IHS School Of Nursing KFA Omu Aran Laolu Saraki Osuwa Tafidan Kaiama UITH Muhammad-Mustapha Suleiman Tunde Idiagbon Road John Olajide Adedipe Shagari Moshood Bakare