Justice Olubunmi Abike-Fadipe of a Lagos Special Offences Court in Ikeja has sentenced an automobile dealer, Rasaki Wasiu Adeyiga, to seven years imprisonment over Twenty-Four Million Two Hundred and Sixty Thousand Naira Fraud.
Justice Abike-Fadipe found Adeyiga guilty of two counts levelled against him by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC.
The anti-graft agency arraigned Adeyiga before the court for defrauding a businessman, Ahmed Garba Shinkafi on the representation that the said sum represented the cost of two LEXUS GX 460.
According to the charge information, the convict, Rasaki Wasiu Adeyiga, sometime between September 2020 in Lagos, with intent to defraud converted the said sum to his use without supplying the Lexus Jeep.
An offence punishable by Sections 1 (a) and (3) of the Advance Fee Fraud and Other Fraud Related Offences Act No. 14 of 2006.
Adeyiga however pleaded not guilty to the two count charges when it was read to him during arraignment.
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Subsequently, EFCC called four witnesses to prove the allegations.
Delivering judgment, Justice Olubunmi Abike-Fadipe found him guilty as charged.
Pleading for mercy, the convict’s counsel, B.A. Momodu, urged the court to grant him an option of fine being a first-time offender.
In a counter-reaction, Babatunde Sonoiki and Samuel Daaji who represents EFCC, urged the court to sentence him as prescribed by law
After entertaining the submission from counsels, the judge sentenced him to seven years imprisonment on count one and two years on the second count.
Justice Abike-Fadipe however ordered that the sentencing should run concurrently and also to restitute the money back to the victim
