Metro/Crime
First Class Undergraduate Bags 13-year Jail Term (Photo)
Fisayo Adetoro, final year student of Business Administration in a private university located in Ondo State, was on Thursday, January 23, 2020, found guilty of impersonation, forgery and money laundering.
Adetoro was sentenced to cumulative 13 years in prison and N1,000,000 (One Million Naira) fine.
Adetoro, who was said to be a first class candidate on 4.5 Cumulative Grade Point Aggregate (CGPA), was convicted by Justice Folashade Olubanjo of the Federal High Court 1, Akure, in a criminal case filed against him by the EFCC, Ibadan zonal office.
The undergraduate guy was originally arraigned on January 18, 2017 on a six-count charge, but pleaded not-guilty to all the charges.
According to the charge sheet, the allegation include falsely representing himself to be Bawa Mohammed Sanni to defraud his victims to the tune of thousands of United States Dollars.
He was also accused of using the fake name to register for a Nigerian Driver’s Licence bearing his photograph, as well as laundering sums running to millions of naira.
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