The Lagos Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC on August 8, 2022, secured the conviction of one Yusuf Adetokunbo, before Justice Oluwatoyin Taiwo of the Special Offences Court sitting in Ikeja, Lagos for offence bordering on possession of documents containing false pretence.
Adetokunbo was arraigned on a one-count charge dated July 22, 2022, bordering on possession of documents containing false pretenses contrary to Section 320 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2015.
The count reads: “That you, Yusuf Olawale Adetokunbo on or about the 29th April, 2022 at Lagos, within the Ikeja jurisdiction of this Honourable Court with the intent to defraud had in your possession a bundle of fraudulent chats containing false pretence in your Google voice app and email with the name [email protected] which pretence you knew or ought to know to be false.”
He pleaded “guilty” to the charge when it was read to him.
The prosecuting counsel, Nnaemeka Omewa, thereafter gave a review of the facts.
He further tendered in evidence the fraudulent documents printed from his iPhone X and iPhone 6+, as well as a draft of N200,000 issued as restitution by the defendant.
There was no objection by the defence counsel, Kayode Oyedele, and they were admitted as Exhibit A and B.
“We urge the court to convict the defendant as charged and to forfeit to the Federal Government the items recovered from him,” Omewa said.
Thereafter, Justice Taiwo convicted him as charged and sentenced him to six months at a Custodial Centre, with an option of N150, 000 fine. Items recovered from him were also ordered forfeited to the Federal Government
