- A young man has bagged a one-year jail term for defrauding some people in Lagos
- Oluwatobiloba Badejo was said to have obtained money by false pretence
- He was also accused of possessing fraudulent documents to the tune of N124,937.53
An internet fraudster, Oluwatobiloba Badejo, was on Wednesday, May 30, jailed by a Lagos High Court in Ikeja.
Although he pleaded not guilty, Badejo was guilty on two-count charge bordering on obtaining money by false pretence and possession of fraudulent documents to the tune of N124,937.53.
The court judgement was delivered by Justice O.A. Williams of the State High Court in Ikeja after the convicted entered a plea bargain with the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to refund to money.
The money EFCC alleged was obtained from Badejo's victims.
Badejo bagged a one-year jail term from the Ikeja High Court. Photo credit: Instagram, EFCC
He also pledged to forfeit to the federal government a Dell laptop computer, which he used “as the instrumentality of fraud."
Having been arraigned on May 25, 2018, the charged against Badejo read: “That you, Oluwatobiloba Badejo (aka Lynda Andrew) on or about the 20thof March, 2016, at Lagos within the Ikeja judicial Division, by false pretence and with intent to defraud, obtained the sum of N52, 937.53( Fifty-two Thousand, Nine Hundred and Thirty-seven Naira, Fifty- three Kobo) from one Manuel Alberto Rama Carracedo by falsely representing to him that you are a woman with the name Lynda Andre , which pretence you knew to be false.”
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Count two reads: “That you, Oluwatobiloba Badejo ( aka Lynda Andrew) on or about the 13th of June, 2016 at Lagos, within the Ikeja judicial Division by false pretence and with intent to defraud, obtained the sum of N72, 000( Seventy- two Thousand Naira) from one Manuel Alberto Rama Carracedo by falsely representing to him that you are a woman with the name Lynda Andrew, which pretence you knew to be false.”
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Meanwhile, NAIJ.com earlier reported that the EFCC had arrested two suspected fraudsters for defrauding a victim of N31 million.
The suspects: Balogun Olumide Ojo and Augustine Opaso were arrested in Port Harcourt, Rivers state by operatives of the commission in the guise of making “money medicine” for their victims.
They were arrested based on a petition by their victim, who alleged that the suspects deceived him into believing that he could access his family wealth through some “special prayers” that would offer him “money medicine”
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Source: Naija.ng