First class graduate of Lead City Uni jailed 12 months for $12,000 internet love
An Ikeja High Court sitting in Lagos on Tuesday sentenced a first-class graduate from Lead City University, Ibadan, Olakunle Akanni, to one year imprisonment for defrauding an American woman, Diana Huizenga, of over $12,000 – N1.92m through an ‘internet love scam.’
The sentenced was handed down on Akanni by Justice Lateef Lawal-Akapo after he pleaded guilty to the offence during his re-arraignment.
One of his partner in the crime, Adesina Akinsola, was also given a similar sentence, however, the judge adjourned the sentencing of their co-accused, Dele Oshuntogun, till 17 November.
The judge convicted both of them on two charges of conspiracy and obtaining money under false pretence preferred against them, and consequently sentenced them to one year imprisonment on each of the counts, adding that the sentences were to run concurrently beginning from the day the judgment was delivered.
The convicts are said to have entered into a plea bargain with the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC.
“The first defendant, Akanni, is to pay the sum of N2 million which is the equivalent of $12, 820 to the victim (Huizenga), as restitution.
“Also, the third defendant, Akinsola, is to pay the sum of N500, 000 to the victim as restitution,” the judge ordered.
He also ordered them to write an undertaking to be submitted to the EFCC that they would be of good behaviour upon their release from prison custody.
Narrating the facts of the case, the EFCC counsel, Mrs Zainab Ettuh, said the he convicts committed the offences between December 2010 and February 2012 in Lagos.
According to her, the convicts connived with others to obtain various sums of money from the victim, a 77-year-old American woman.
She said Akanni falsely presented himself to Huizenga as one Robert Lewis, a white American living in Nigeria, who was in love with her.
According to her, the convicts used the “love scam” to defraud the woman and even invited her to come to Nigeria with $90,000 before they were apprehended.
She said their offences contravened Section 419 of the Criminal Code, Laws of Lagos State, 2003.
The sentenced was handed down on Akanni by Justice Lateef Lawal-Akapo after he pleaded guilty to the offence during his re-arraignment.
One of his partner in the crime, Adesina Akinsola, was also given a similar sentence, however, the judge adjourned the sentencing of their co-accused, Dele Oshuntogun, till 17 November.
The judge convicted both of them on two charges of conspiracy and obtaining money under false pretence preferred against them, and consequently sentenced them to one year imprisonment on each of the counts, adding that the sentences were to run concurrently beginning from the day the judgment was delivered.
The convicts are said to have entered into a plea bargain with the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC.
“The first defendant, Akanni, is to pay the sum of N2 million which is the equivalent of $12, 820 to the victim (Huizenga), as restitution.
“Also, the third defendant, Akinsola, is to pay the sum of N500, 000 to the victim as restitution,” the judge ordered.
He also ordered them to write an undertaking to be submitted to the EFCC that they would be of good behaviour upon their release from prison custody.
Narrating the facts of the case, the EFCC counsel, Mrs Zainab Ettuh, said the he convicts committed the offences between December 2010 and February 2012 in Lagos.
According to her, the convicts connived with others to obtain various sums of money from the victim, a 77-year-old American woman.
She said Akanni falsely presented himself to Huizenga as one Robert Lewis, a white American living in Nigeria, who was in love with her.
According to her, the convicts used the “love scam” to defraud the woman and even invited her to come to Nigeria with $90,000 before they were apprehended.
She said their offences contravened Section 419 of the Criminal Code, Laws of Lagos State, 2003.
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