Bureau De-Change owner, 2 others jailed over fraud, illegal operation
A Bureau De-Change operator in Kwara State, Yakubu Aminu, has been sentenced to 200 hours community service without an option of fine for operating without a valid licence. Similarly, Abdulalahi Abdulrasaq Omotosho and Akeem Ibrahim Salaudeen, were also jailed for involvement in internet fraud-related crimes. They were convicted by Justices Abimbola Awogboro and Hammed Gegele […]
bureau de change owner, 2 others jailed over fraud, illegal operation
A Bureau De-Change operator in Kwara State, Yakubu Aminu, has been sentenced to 200 hours community service without an option of fine for operating without a valid licence.
Similarly, Abdulalahi Abdulrasaq Omotosho and Akeem Ibrahim Salaudeen, were also jailed for involvement in internet fraud-related crimes.
They were convicted by Justices Abimbola Awogboro and Hammed Gegele of the Federal and State High Courts sitting in Ilorin respectively.
Their cases were prosecuted by the Ilorin Zonal Directorate of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).
The defendants pleaded guilty when the charges were read to them.
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The anti-graft commission arrested the bureau de change operator at Chikanda Market in Baruten LGA of the state while Salaudeen was picked up over suspicious proceeds of crime in his account.
They were ordered by the courts to forfeit various sums of money in dollars and cfa as well as phones recovered at the point of arrest to the federal government.
The duo of Akeem and Abdullahi who were sent to six months imprisonment each were given an option of N150,000.