Court jails man on FBI wanted list

Justice Mahmood Abdulgafar of the Kwara State High Court on Thursday sentenced Joseph Oyediran, a suspect on the wanted list of United States of America’s Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI), to one year imprisonment for internet fraud.

Justice Abdulgafar made the ruling having relied on the documents tendered and evidence presented by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).

The Commission had arraigned the convict on five-count charges, for which he pleaded not guilty but later approached the prosecution team for a plea bargain.

Following he plea bargain agreement, the prosecution amended the charge.

Count one of the amended charge read: “That you, Joseph Oyediran (alias Joe M.G. Graves) between April, 2015 to June 2015, in Ilorin within the jurisdiction of this honourable court did cheat by impersonation when you pretended to be one Joe M.G. Graves, a white male with gmail account gravesmjoe@gmail.com, and fraudulently deceived one Andrea Smith, an American citizen to send N2,392, 105.00 (Two million,  three hundred and ninety two thousand,  one hundred and five Naira) after you made her believe you were in love with her and you thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 321 of the Penal Code and punishable under Section 324 of the same Penal Code.”

He pleaded guilty to the amended one count charge.

While reviewing the facts of the case, the prosecution summoned the Head of Advance Fee Fraud Section of the EFCC, Ilorin Zonal Office, Olamide Sadiq, as witness.

According to Sadiq, a Principal Detective Superintendent, the Commission received a petition from the FBI on the 24th of July 2019, alleging that Oyediran was involved in business email compromise, romance scam and other fraud-related offence. Based on investigations, the suspect was arrested and he confessed to the crime.

Delivering his judgment, Justice Abdulgafar said the testimonies of the prosecution witness, the plea of the defendant and documents presented were enough to conclude that the prosecution was able to prove its case beyond reasonable doubt.

“The convict is hereby sentenced to one year imprisonment while his one plot of land, located at Wara, behind Ilorin West Local Government Secretariat, and the sum of N800,000 (Eight Hundred Thousand Naira) recovered from him should be forfeited to the federal government,” Justice Abdulgafar ruled.

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