A 31-year-old student of the Kwara State Polytechnic, Ilorin, Bashiru Azeez, has been sentenced to six months imprisonment for fraud that runs into $9,891.
Bashiru, who is from Oyan in the Odo-Otin Local Government Area of Osun State, is a student in the Marketing Department of Kwara State Polytechnic, Ilorin.
Azeez’s verdict was given on Friday by a Kwara State High Court sitting in Ilorin, the capital of the state.
The case was brought before the Justice Adebayo Yusuf-led High Court by the Ilorin Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission.
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The accused person was charged with one count offence of defrauding a client of $9,891 by the anti-graft agency and the convict pleaded guilty to the charge.
Following his plea, counsel to the EFCC, Sesan Ola, reviewed the facts of the case through a witness who is an operative of the commission.
The witness tendered the extra-judicial statements of the defendant, an HP laptop, one RX 330 Lexus car and one phone in evidence of the crime against the defendant, following which the counsel urged the court to convict the defendant as charged.
Justice Yusuf, in his judgment, sentenced the defendant to six months imprisonment with N200,000 as an option of a fine.
The judge also ordered the forfeiture of the convict’s car, one iPhone XR, and an HP laptop to the Federal Government.