Two Yahoo boys in Lagos have been convicted and jailed for six months by the Financial and Monetary Crimes Fee, EFCC. The Web fraudsters recognized as Temitope Samson and Uduogwu Freeborn Eboagwu, had been sentenced by Justice Oluwatoyin Taiwo of the Particular Offences Court docket sitting in Ikeja, Lagos State, The company stories. The convicts had been arraigned right this moment on an amended two-count cost bordering on possession of fraudulent paperwork containing false info, an offence opposite to Part 318 of the Prison Regulation of Lagos State No. 11 of 2011. One of many counts reads: “That you simply, Temitope Samson, on or concerning the 14th day of March, 2019 in Lagos, throughout the Ikeja Judicial Division, had in your possession paperwork containing false pretence with the heading “Google Account Profile” , whereby you falsely represented your self as Kaliyah Salius, which representations you knew or should know, having regards to the circumstances of the case, that the doc accommodates false pretence.” One other depend reads: “That you simply, Uduogwu Freeborn Eboagwu, on or concerning the 14th day of March, 2019 in Lagos, throughout the Ikeja Judicial Division, had in your possession paperwork containing false pretence with the heading “Devoted”, whereby you falsely represented your self as Fred Fernando, which representations you knew or should know, having regards to the circumstances of the case that the doc accommodates the false pretence.” The defendants pleaded responsible to the cost most popular in opposition to them by the Fee. In view of their responsible pleas, prosecution counsel, Pleasure Amahian, urged the court docket to convict and sentence them in accordance with the Prison Regulation of Lagos. Nonetheless, counsel to the defendants pleaded with the court docket to mood justice with mercy, saying, “My Lord, they’re first time offenders and can by no means return to Web fraud, if given an possibility of effective and/ or group service.” Justice Taiwo convicted and sentenced them to 6 months in jail every, with an possibility of effective of N250, 000.00 (Two Hundred and Fifty Thousand Naira). Justice Taiwo additionally ordered that the three laptops, two telephones and two vehicles recovered from the defendants be forfeited to the Federal Authorities.
