Bashiru Azeez Seyi, 31, a native of Oyan in the Odo-Otin Local Government Area of Osun State, was found guilty on Friday, October 14, 2022, by the EFCC’s Ilorin Zonal Command of offenses bordering on online fraud.
The EFCC brought charges against Bashiru, a student at the Kwara State Polytechnic in Ilorin studying marketing, on one count before Justice Adebayo Yusuf of the Kwara State High Court sitting in Ilorin.
The accusation reads: “That you, Bashiru Azeez Seyi, committed an offense contrary to and punishable under Section 319A of the Penal Code by knowing having under your control the gross sum of $9,891 (Nine Thousand, Eight Hundred and Ninety One United States Dollars) which you knew to have been obtained unlawfully sometime between July 2020 and January 2022 in Ilorin, within the jurisdiction of this Honorable Court.”
He confessed to the crime.
