NANS Director Bags One-Year Jail Term Over N195m Internet Fraud
Category: Crime News
A Director of Logistics of the National Association of Nigerian
Students (NANS), Federal University, Oye-Ekiti Chapter, Adeyemi Israel Abiodun
has been sentenced to one-year imprisonment over internet-related fraud.
Ibadan Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes
Commission (EFCC) secured the conviction of Abiodun.
It was
gathered that Abiodun is a 200-level student of Economics and Development
Studies at the Federal University, Oye-Ekiti in Ekiti State.
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He was arrested on March 30, 2022, alongside seventy-nine (79) others in
a sting operation by the operatives of the Ibadan Zonal Command of the EFCC at
Sango area of Ibadan, Oyo State for alleged internet fraud.
Investigations
revealed that, between July 2021 and March 2022, Abiodun benefited N195, 274,
331.00 (One Hundred and Ninety-Five Million, Two Hundred and Seventy Four
Thousand, Three Hundred and Thirty-One Naira) as a cumulative heist from
cyber-fraud involving forgery of over 25 US banks cheques.
Abiodun
was among the 40 persons convicted on separate charges before four judges of
the Oyo State High Court, Ibadan.
EFCC said the offences bordered on impersonation, obtaining money under
false pretense, obtaining property by false pretence and forgery contrary to
Sections 419, 467, 484, 516 and 508 of the Criminal Code Law Cap 38, Laws of
Oyo State, 2000.
Wilson Uwujaren, Head of Media and Publicity of
EFCC in a statement on Wednesday, explained that Abiodun was arraigned before
Justice Iyabo Yerima.
Thirty-nine others were prosecuted before
Justices Bayo Taiwo, Akintola Ladiran and Olusola Adetujoye.
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The convicts were sentenced between August 15, 2022, and August 23,
2022.
One year...
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