Printer, 26, bags three years’ imprisonment for fraud
The Benin Division of the Edo High Court, on Thursday, sentenced a 26-year-old printer, Ufumen Victor, to three years in the correctional centre for fraud.
The presiding judge, Justice Isoken Ikponmwonba, convicted him after he prayed the court for a plea bargain agreement.
The judge, however, gave him an option of a fine of N100,000.
According to the prosecutor for the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Francis Jibril, the convict, had documents in his possession on April 4 in Benin that he knew contained false pretences.
“As such, he committed an offence contrary to Sections 6 and 8 (b) of the Advance Fee Fraud and Other Fraud-related Offences Act 2006 and punishable under section 1(3) of the same Act,” stated Mr Jibril.
The prosecutor said in a plea bargain agreement, Mr Ikponmwonba had pleaded guilty to the one-count charge of advance-fee fraud.
He said the convict should forfeit an iPhone 14 Promax recovered from him as an instrumentality of the crime with which he was charged and convicted to the federal government through EFCC.
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