The Kaduna zonal office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, today, March 25, 2020 secured the conviction of one Robert Sunday Olaoluwa who was convicted and sentenced by Justice Z.B Abubakar of the Federal High Court, sitting in Kaduna State on a one count charge bordering on Cybercrime.

His sojourn to jail began sometime on February 28, 2020, when he was arrested based on intelligence received by the Intelligence and Special Operations Section, ISOS, of the Zonal Office which showed that he had been defrauding unsuspecting members of the public, mainly job seekers, by using several identities with different email addresses posing as foreigners.

Count one of the charge reads: “That you, Robert Sunday Olaoluwa ‘M’ sometime in February, 2020 in Kaduna within the Jurisdiction of this Honourable court fraudulently impersonates one Anthony Newton and you claimed to be one of the Human Resources Managers at TTEC with intent to gain advantage for yourself and you thereby committed an offence punishable under Section 22(2) (b) of Cyber-crimes (Prohibition, Prevention etc) Act, 2015.

He consequently pleaded not guilty to the one count charge and the prosecution counsel led by Deborah Adamu-Eteh, urged the court to convict the accused accordingly.

Justice Abubakar, accordingly sentenced and convicted the accused person to one-year imprisonment with an option of N300, 000 (Three Hundred Thousand Naira). He is also to forfeit his Dell laptop worth N60,000 (Sixty Thousand Naira) and an iphone 8plus worth N150,000 (One Hundred and Fifty Thousand Naira) being the instruments used in perpetrating the crime to the Federal Government.

It would be recalled that on February 29, 2020, operatives of the zonal office arrested the suspect amongst others and whilst being interviewed confessed to the crime of using different identities to defraud job seekers.



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March 25, 2020