Court jails Kwara University student, POS operator over cybercrime
Justice Mohammed Sani of the Federal High Court, Ilorin, has jailed two internet fraudsters, Onyeanu David, and Anthony Obumneme, for cybercrime.
The first defendant, David, is a POS operator, who specialises in theft, by stealing from his customers, through the internet.
Obumneme, the second defendant, was one of the 30 ‘Yahoo Boys’ arrested on Sept. 19, by EFCC, during a sting operation on selected hostels at the Kwara state University, Malete.
The convicts were both arraigned by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on separate charges of one count each upon which they had pleaded guilty under a plea bargain.
Delivering judgement, the Judge said the court had carefully considered the plea of the defendants, their statements and plea bargain agreements and held that they were guilty of their respective charges.
He therefore sentenced David to one year in prison, with N200,000, as an option of fine and also ordered that the convict should forfeit the sum of US$150 and iPhone 11, the proceeds from the crime, to the federal government.
Similarly, the court also sentenced Obumneme to six months in prison, with N300,000 as an option of fine and ordered that he should forfeit the sum of US$300, which he benefited from the criminal activity and iPhone 12 Pro, used to perpetrate the crime to the federal government.
