An Ikeja High Court in Lagos
has sentenced a graduate of Lead City University, Ibadan, Olakunle
Akanni to one-year imprisonment
for defrauding a 77 year-old American woman, Diana
Huizenga, of over 12,000 dollars through an internet love scam.
Olakunle Akanni passed out with 1st-class honors
in Lead City University, Ibadan
Olakunle Akanni was sentenced on Nov. 4th at the
Ikeja High Court in Lagos.
One of his accomplices, Adesina Akinsola, 30, was
also given a similar sentence by the judge but adjourned the sentencing of
their co-accused, 30-year-old Dele Oshuntogun, till Nov. 17.
There are reports that the convicts entered a plea bargain with the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). Lawal-Akapo consequently sentenced them to one year imprisonment on each of the counts.
There are reports that the convicts entered a plea bargain with the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). Lawal-Akapo consequently sentenced them to one year imprisonment on each of the counts.
He said the sentences were to run concurrently
beginning from the day the judgment was delivered.
“The first defendant, Olakunle Akanni, is to pay the sum of N2 million which is the equivalent of $12, 820 to the victim (Huizenga), as restitution. Also, the third defendant, Akinsola, is to pay the sum of N500, 000 to the victim as restitution,” the judge ordered.
“The first defendant, Olakunle Akanni, is to pay the sum of N2 million which is the equivalent of $12, 820 to the victim (Huizenga), as restitution. Also, the third defendant, Akinsola, is to pay the sum of N500, 000 to the victim as restitution,” the judge ordered.
He also ordered them to write an undertaken to be
submitted to the EFCC that they would be of good behaviour upon their release
from prison custody.
Mrs Zainab Ettuh , the EFCC counsel, narrating the
facts of the case, told the court that the convicts committed the offences
between December 2010 and February 2012 in Lagos.
She said Olakunle Akanni falsely presented himself to Huizenga as one Robert Lewis, a white American living in Nigeria, who was in love with her.
She said Olakunle Akanni falsely presented himself to Huizenga as one Robert Lewis, a white American living in Nigeria, who was in love with her.
According to her, “the convicts used the “love
scam” to fleece the woman and even invited her to come to Nigeria with $90,000
before they were apprehended”.
Mrs Zainab Ettuh said their offences contravened Section 419 of the Criminal Code, Laws of Lagos State, 2003. (NAN)
Mrs Zainab Ettuh said their offences contravened Section 419 of the Criminal Code, Laws of Lagos State, 2003. (NAN)
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