Court Siezes House Belonging To 19-Year-Old Yahoo Boy In Kwara
Mr. Jimoh Opeyemi a 19-year-old electrician was prosecuted for internet fraud by the Economic and Financial Crime Commission, EFCC.
The Federal High Court in Ilorin, Kwara State, seized his landed property. The judgment was delivered on Thursday by Justice Muhammed Sani, according to a statement by the nation’s anti-graft agency on its official Twitter page.
The statement reads: “Justice Muhammed Sani of the Federal High Court sitting in Ilorin has ordered the forfeiture of a landed property situated at Tanke area of Ilorin, Kwara State, belonging to a 19-year-old Electrician, Jimoh Opeyemi prosecuted for internet fraud by the Ilorin Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC. The judge gave the forfeiture order on Thursday, June 9, 2022, while sentencing Opeyemi alongside five other persons prosecuted on separate charges for similar offenses by the EFCC.
“The others are Apata Lawrence Abimbola Olatosin, a tiler; Ologunsoro Ayodeji Benjamin, from Ikere Ekiti, Ekiti State; Obadun Busayo Danjumo from Ondo West Local Government Area of Ondo State; Olajide Moshood from Modakeke area of Osun State and Johnson Samuel Oluwaseun from Olamaboro Local Government Area of Kogi State.”