Justice Mohammed Sanni of the Federal High Court in Ilorin, has convicted three internet fraudsters over offences bordering on cybercrime.
Incriminating documents including confessional statements of each suspect were tendered and admitted in evidence by the court. In his judgement, Justice Sanni, pronounced the accused guilty and sentenced them to six months jail each with option of N100,000 fine each. On the charge sheet of Ojo David Oluwatosin , he was alleged to have sometime in March 2020, at Ado Ekiti, within the judicial division of the Federal high Court, fraudulently impersonated one Steve Puliam, with the intent to obtain money from one Liza Weaver who chatted vide his email;after superimposing another male picture and thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 22b of the cybercrimes Act 2015 and punishable under Section 22 b of the same Act.