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Driver converts erroneous money to personal use, lands in jail

AdminBy AdminJanuary 22, 2021Updated:January 22, 2021No Comments2 Mins Read
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By Correspondent in Ilorin

A 45-year-old driver, Adetunji Tunde Oluwasegun, has been sentenced to two years imprisonment for fraudulently converting to personal use N2million that was erroneously transferred into his account.

The Reporters recalls that the Ilorin Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) had on January 18, 2021 arraigned Oluwasegun on one-count charge bordering on stealing before Justice Sikiru Oyinloye of the Kwara State High Court sitting in Ilorin.

The offence contravenes Section 286 and punishable under Section 287 of the Penal Code.

The prosecution said Oluwasegun, sometime between the month of July, 2020 and 21st of August, 2020 at Ilorin, Kwara State,took the sum of N2,000,000.00 property of one Sherifat Omolara Sanni.

The prosecution added that Sanni erroneously transferred the said amount to be convict’s bank account 0008383333 domiciled with Guaranty Trust Bank plc, without her consent and thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 286 of the Penal Code and punishable under Section 287 of the same Penal Code”

The defendant pleaded ‘guilty’ to the charge when it was read to him.

Justice Oyinloye found Oluwasegun guilty of the offence and sentenced him to two years imprisonment with a fine of N200, 000.

The judge also ordered the convict to restitute to his victim to N2million before he finished serving his jail term.

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