The Ilorin Zonal Command of the EFCC on Friday, October 14, 2022 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 student in the Marketing Department of Kwara State Polytechnic, Ilorin was prosecuted on one count by the EFCC before Justice Adebayo Yusuf of the Kwara State High Court sitting in Ilorin.
The charge reads:
“That you, Bashiru Azeez Seyi, sometime between July, 2020 and January, 2022 in Ilorin, within the jurisdiction of this Honorable Court 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 and thereby committed an offence contrary to and punishable under Section 319A of the Penal Code”
He pleaded guilty to the charge.
