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The State High Court sitting in Ilorin, on Wednesday sentenced Abdulrahman Wasiu to six months imprisonment for offences bordering on cybercrime and retention of proceeds of unlawful activities with an option of#200,000 fine.
The Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ilorin zonal command secured the conviction.
Ms Akinpelu ordered that the iPhone used by the convict to perpetrate the crime and the Lexus 350 car acquired with the proceeds of unlawful activities be forfeited to the federal government.
The convict was found guilty of the one-count charge preferred against him by EFCC.
The charge against the convict said between November 2020 and November 2021, he had in his possession N4,326,000 suspected to be proceeds of unlawful activities.
The defendant pleaded guilty when the charge was read to him.
The prosecutor, Innocent Mbachie, had earlier reviewed the facts of the case through a witness, who tendered items, such as a Lexus 350 car and an iPhone recovered from the defendant at the point of arrest.
Mr Mbachie also tendered an extra-judicial statement and several incriminating documents printed out of the defendant’s device, which were admitted as evidence.
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