Mr Adetunji Tunde Oluwasegun, a 45-year-old driver, Adetunji, has been jailed for two years for converting to personal use a sum N2 million that was mistakenly transferred into his account.
Njenje Media News reports that the Ilorin Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) had on Monday, January 18, 2021, arraigned Oluwasegun on one-count charge bordering on stealing before Justice Sikiru Oyinloye of the Kwara State High Court sitting in Ilorin.
The charge reads;
“That you, Adetunji Tunde Oluwasegun, sometime between the month of July, 2020 and 21st of August, 2020 at Ilorin, Kwara State, within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court dishonestly took the sum of N2,000,000.00, property of Sherifat Omolara Sanni, which she erroneously transferred to your bank account without her consent and thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 286 of the Penal Code and punishable under Section 287 of the same Penal Code”
Njenje Media reports that when the charge was read to Oluwasegun, he pleaded guilty.
Justice Oyinloye in his judgment found Oluwasegun guilty of the offence and sentenced him to two years imprisonment with a fine of N200, 000. The judge also ordered the Oluwasegun to return his victim the sum of N2million before he finished serving his jail term.
