Justice
Sikiru Oyinloye of Kwara State High Court, Ilorin, has convicted two Internet
fraudsters, Johnson Okuselu, 23 and Saheed Olanrewaju, 25, to one year
imprisonment without an option of fine for alleged internet scam.
A
statement from the EFCC says that during the trial, an investigator of Economic
and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Olamide Sadiq, told the court that on
April 28th, based on reliable information concerning the suspicious activities
of defendant about internet fraud, the operatives arrested the defendants at
Ilorin International Airport.
The
witness said that their phones were searched and it was revealed that the
defendants created an email, using the name James kiak, with email address,
captainjameskaik@gmail. Com; while “using the picture of a white man to deceive
his unsuspecting victim". He said after analysing the e-mail and several other
email correspondents between the defendants and their victims, one Brenda
Hurling, it was revealed that it was scam mail.
The
entire incriminating documents discovered from the defendants were admitted in
court as evidence P1 and P2a. The IPhone was admitted as evidence P1, while the
statement made by the defendant in April was admitted as P2a.
“The
document was endorsed by the defendant, attached to the document is a
certificate of identification,” Sadiq said. Also admitted as evidence is the
printed out email transactions that transpired between the defendant and Brenda
Hurling and the certificate of identification was admitted as evidence P2b.
The
prosecution counsel, Mr. A. A. Adebayo, told the court that sometimes in April,
Okuselu pretended to be an America woman, one Blessed Saviour, claiming to
provide job to one Omni Guzman, in United States of America.
Adebayo
said that it was contained in the accused person’s Gmail account;
blessed.saviour000@gmail.com; email conversation with his victim.
According
to the prosecution Counsel, Okuselu committed an offence, contrary to sections
95, 321 of the penal code law and punishable under section 322 of the same law.
Adebayo said the defendants entered a plea bargain agreement.
After
hearing the two counsels, Justice Oyinloye accepted the plea bargain and
sentenced the two accused persons after they "pleaded guilty" to the
charges brought against them by the EFCC.
Oyinloye
said the sentence followed a plea bargain agreement, entered upon by the
prosecution and defence counsel and the evidence admitted into court.
He
further said that "following the accused acceptance of guilt; he therefore
sentenced the accused person to 1 year in Oke-kura prison yard".
According
to the presiding Judge "The sentence service will commence from April 28,
when the accused persons were arrested by the anti graft body" and asked
them to write an undertaking to the court, that they will never commit same
offence again
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