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The Federal Excessive Court docket, Osogbo, Osun State, has jailed a person, Michael Temitope Owolabi, for internet-related fraud.
The Financial and Monetary Crimes Fee (EFCC) had arraigned the person for cybercrime and prison impersonation.
The prosecution counsel, Lanre Abdulresheed, advised the court docket that Owolabi’s offence contravened Part 22(2) (b) (ii) of the Cybercrimes (Prohibition, Prevention And so forth) Act, 2015 and punishable below Part 22 (2) of the identical Act.
The defendant pleaded responsible to the cost filed towards him and Abdulresheed urged the court docket to convict him accordingly.
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Justice Ayo Emmanuel sentenced Owolabi to 9 months imprisonment.
The choose additionally ordered him to return $700 to his sufferer and as nicely ordered that he ought to forfeit the gadgets recovered from him to the federal authorities.
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Source: www.dailytrust.com.ng