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Mrs Damilola Adeyeri and her son, Alaba, have been sentenced to three years’ imprisonment for defrauding an American of the sum of $82,570.’
EFCC charged them for “fraudulent trick business and email compromise”
The mother and son conspired with one Kareem Russel, who is still at large, to defrauded the Chief Executive Officer of American Cranes Manufacturing Company.
Damilola and her son had pleaded guilty to the charges at their arraignment on Tuesday.
They committed the offences in June 2017 and were arrested on September 6, 2019.
Damilola and Alaba were said to have carried out the fraud by “dishonestly representing yourselves as the CEO of American Cranes Manufacturing Company, and thereafter, you sent an email from
with the intent to gain advantage to yourselves.”
The prosecutor told the court that the convicts acted contrary to sections 27 (1) (a) and 23 (3) of the Cybercrime (Prohibition, Prevention, etc) Act, 2015, and were liable to be punished under Section 22(1) of the same Act.
The offences were also said to be contrary to sections 421 and 422 of the Criminal Code Act, Cap C38.
In his judgment, Justice Aneke said he would temper justice with mercy, because the convicts pleaded guilty to the charges immediately rather than waste the time of the court.
