A Civil Engineering, Samuel Oteyowo, has been sentenced to a 14-month-jail-term for swindling an American of the sum of N19.6m.
Oteyowo was charged with a one-count amended charge of criminal impersonation for defrauding Warren Doht of an amount totalling the sum of N19,664,128.50 via the internet.
Federal High Court sitting in Osogbo, Osun State, and presided over by Justice Nathaniel Ayo-Emmanuel convicted the 32-year-old accused guilty as charged.
The accused person was said to have committed the crime contrary to Section 22(2) (b) (ii) of the Crimes (Prohibition, Prevention etc) Act, 2015 and punishable under Section 22 (2) of the same Act.
But the Ibadan Zonal office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, stated that the convict had approached the Commission for a plea bargain agreement.
EFCC’s Head, Media and Publicity, Wilson Uwujaren, said the plea bargain agreement “formed the basis for the amended charge with which he was arraigned and convicted on Monday.”
After the accused pleaded not guilty to the amended charge, prosecution counsel, Murtala Usman, urged the court to convict him accordingly.
In addition to the jail term, the court also ordered Oteyowo to restitute the N19,664,128.50 to the victim of his crime.