Internet Fraud: Undergraduate bags 18 months imprisonment

An Ikeja High Court on Tuesday
sentenced an undergraduate, Damola
Ekundayo, to 18 months
imprisonment for being in possession
of documents used for facilitating
Internet fraud.
Justice Oluwatoyin Ipaye handed the
sentence to Ekundayo, 27, after he
pleaded guilty to a three-count
charge bordering on the offence
during his re-arraignment.
The judge convicted Ekundayo, who
claimed to be a student of Lead City
University in Oyo State, and
consequently sentenced him to 18
months imprisonment on each of the
counts.
According to her, the sentence is to
run concurrently beginning from
Nov.11, 2013, when Ekundayo was
first arraigned for the offence.
The convict was charged to court by
the Economic and Financial Crimes
Commission.
He had pleaded not guilty to the
charge during the previous
arraignment.
Ekundayo, however, later entered a
plea bargain agreement with the EFCC
and opted to plead guilty to the
charge.
The EFCC counsel, Mrs Zainab Etuh,
had said Ekundayo was arrested on
May 6, 2013 in Lagos, for possession
of fraudulent documents.
Etuh said the accused was in
possession of an electronic mail
address, under the alias of Trisha
Douglas, which he wanted to use to
perpetrate fraud on the Internet.
She said his offence contravened
Section 318 of the Criminal Law of
Lagos State of Nigeria 2011.