Posted by On Friday, October 14, 2022, the EFCC’s Ilorin Zonal Command secured the conviction of 31-year-old Bashiru Azeez Seyi, a native of Oyan in Odo-Otin Local Government Area, Osun State, for offences bordering on internet fraud.
Bashiru, a Marketing student at Kwara State Polytechnic in Ilorin, was charged by the EFCC on one count before Justice Adebayo Yusuf of the Kwara State High Court in Ilorin.
The charge reads: “That you, Bashiru Azeez Seyi, knowingly had under your control the gross sum of $9,891 (Nine Thousand, Eight Hundred and Ninety One United States Dollars) which you knew to be unlawfully obtained sometime between July, 2020 and January, 2022 in Ilorin, within the jurisdiction of this Honorable Court and thereby committed an offence contrary to and punishable under Section 319A of the Penal Code.”
He entered a guilty plea to the charge.