COURT JAILS FAKE SPIRITUALIST FOR INTERNET FRAUD IN ILORIN 16-01-25
By Sadiq Aminu Kwara state High Court Presided over by Justice Mahmud Abdulgafar has convicted and sentenced one Odeyemi Hammed Oluwaseun to one year imprisonment for internet fraud.
The convict, a self-styled spiritualist was prosecuted by the Ilorin Zonal Directorate of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC on a two-count charge that bordered on internet fraud, impersonation and obtaining by false pretences.
In the charge sheet count the convict Odeyemi Hammed Oluwaseun, was said to have sometime in December, 2023 in Ilorin, within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court, dishonestly induced one Bose to send $3200.00 (Three Thousand Two Hundred Dollars) worth of gift cards, with the impression that the same would be used to diabolically influence her ex-husband to return and marry her, contrary to Section 321 of the Penal Code and punishable under Section 324 of the same Penal Code.”
Count two said that the convict Odeyemi Hammed Oluwaseun, between August, 2023 to September, 2023 in Ilorin within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court, dishonestly induced one Schneider Alina to send $4500.00 (Four Thousand, Five Hundred Dollar) worth of gift cards to him , with the impression that the same would be used to diabolically control her ex-boyfriend to return and marry her, an offence contrary to Section 321 of the Penal Code and punishable under Section 324 of the same Penal Code”
The convict pleaded guilty to the charges when they were read to him, following which prosecution counsel, Sesan Ola reviewed the facts of the case, tendered the convict’s extra-judicial statements and evidence, including the sum of $1000 (One Thousand United States Dollars) recovered from him and prayed the court to convict and sentence him as charged.
Justice Mahmud Abdulgafar sentenced Oluwaseun to six months suspended jail term on each of the counts, and ordered that the sum of $1000 (One Thousand United States Dollars), iPhone 15 and 2008 Toyota Camry car recovered from him be forfeited to the federal government.
Oluwaseun, a 23-year-old man that hails from Oyo State, defrauded his victims on the internet by posing as an American-based female spiritualist with powers to cause jilted women and estranged wives to regain the affection of their men.