Court jails two siblings for internet fraud in Kwara - The Nation Newspaper

Kwara state High Court sitting in Ilorin, the state capital Tuesday sentenced two siblings and another person to four-year jail for cheating and internet fraud.

Economic and Financial Crimes Commission , Ilorin Zonal office charged the three to court for offences bordering of cheating and internet fraud.

Counsel to EFCC Nnaemeka Omawa told the court that “the defendants had prior to their arraignment, approached the commission for a plea bargain agreement, we have considered it, bother the prosecution and the defendants have come up with the terms in line with section 276 of the administration of criminal justice act, the accused persons during their extrajudicial statements have confessed to the crime.

Defence counsel Taofeek Alubarika, however, pleaded with the court to temper justice with mercy, saying his clients had shown remorse on what they did. Delivering his judgement, Justice M. Abdulgafar sentenced the trio to four months imprisonment effective from the 15th day of April 2019.”He also ordered for the forfeiture of defendants to forfeit all the exhibits recovered from them to the Federal Government.

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