Police Handover Internet
Police Handover Internet Fraudsters to EFCC
Operatives of the IGP Intelligence Response Team, IRT, has handed
over three suspected Advance Fee fraudsters to the Ibadan office of
the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC for further
investigation.
The suspects who are between 22 and 29 years of age include:
Ebenezer Adeniyi Oluwafemi, Kolade Samuel Sogo, and Olwagbenga
Majeed Ejikunke. They were arrested Tuesday 4th, December, 2018 in
Ilesha, Osun State following series of intelligence gathered by the
operatives.
Preliminary investigations further revealed that the suspects
allegedly got involved in different romance scam posing as female
foreigners to fleece unsuspecting victims on the social media.
At the point of arrest, varied fetish materials, two laptops,
and five different brands of telephones were recovered from them.
Several documents containing false pretences were also recovered
from the suspects.
According to the Head, Ibadan Office, Abdulrasheed Bawa, the
handing over of the three suspects brought the total number of
Advance Fee fraudsters arrested in the Ibadan office to 40 in the
last couple of weeks. “The zone is no longer a hiding place for the
fraudsters”, he stated.
Investigation is still ongoing and the suspects will soon be
charged to court.
Tony Orilade
Ag. Head, Media & Publicity
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Court Sentences Gafar Saka to One Year Imprisonment Over Land
Scam
Justice M. L. Owolabi of the Oyo State High Court, sitting in
Iyagunku, today, December 7, 2018 convicted and sentenced one Gafar
Saka to one year imprisonment for obtaining money under false
pretence contrary to Section 419 of the Criminal Code Law, Cap 38,
Laws of the Oyo State 2000. The sentence takes effect from the day
of his arrest.
Gafar who was re-arraigned today by the Ibadan office of the
Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on a one count
amended charge bordering on obtaining money under false pretence
pleaded guilty and entered into a plea bargain. He was therefore,
convicted accordingly. He also refunded the said plots of land to
the complainant.
The amended information that earned the convict the jail term
reads, “that you Gafar Saka between the 26th of November, and 14th
December, 2016 at Ibadan within the jurisdiction of this honourable
court, with the intent to defraud, obtained the sum of
N4,500,000.00 (Four Million, Five Hundred Thousand Naira) only from
one Mr. Bamidele Adebisi and Mrs. Adeola Adebisi through Pastor
Olorunfemi Isaac, under the false pretence that the money
represented payment for a parcel plot of land at plot 9, Block B,
behind African Church Grammar School, Apata Ganga, Ido Local
Government Area, Ibadan Oyo State, which pretence you knew to be
false, and thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 419 of
the Criminal Code Law, Cap 38, Laws of the Oyo State 2000”.
Tony Orilade
Ag. Head, Media & Publicity
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Judge Withdraws after Fraud Suspects Sought for
Favour
The trial of Victoria Adelana, a civil engineer, who is standing
trial for a N5 million fraud, before Justice D.Z. Senchi of a
Federal Capital Territory, FCT High Court, Jabi, has taken a new
twist as the trial judge withdrew from the case accusing the
defendant of embarrassing him with several calls, “asking for help”
in the matter.
Adelana, who is accused of defrauding Chinenye Ike in a land
scam, was arraigned in May 2016, and pleaded “not guilty” to the
charge. She later jumped bail, and had to be declared wanted,
before operatives of the EFCC arrested her on February 10, 2018 and
brought her to court to face her trial.
Justice Senchi thereafter revoked the bail earlier granted her
and ordered that she be remanded in Suleja prison.
The trial had continued on February 20, 2018 with prosecuting
counsel, Diane Nkwap, calling her first witness, Frank Kamalu, who
told the court how the defendant collected the money to buy a plot
of land at Maitama Extension II, in Abuja, for Ike. It however,
turned out to be a land scam.
At the resumed sitting, Justice Senchi, was to give ruling on
bail, and a “no-case” submission by the defence. However, the trial
judge informed both prosecution and defence in open court that he
felt embarrassed by the recent development, in which the defendant
had literally been harassing him with several calls.
“Since last sitting of November 28, 2018 when the matter last
came up, she has been calling me severally asking for help in the
matter and even today before sitting commenced, she called me,”
Justice Senchi said. The trial judge then asked Adelana how she got
his phone number.
“Danlami, a member of the Badminton Association gave me the
number to call and beg for assistance,” she replied.
In view of the development, the trial judge, excused himself
from the case, and ordered that the case file be returned to the
Chief Judge of the FCT for re-assignment. Adelana was also ordered
to be remanded in prison custody pending the re-assignment of the
case.
Tony Orilade,
Ag. Head, Media & Publicity