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UK Jails Nigerian Pastor Nine Years by ademate(m): 6:12pm On Jun 27, 2016 |
A Nigerian accountant and part-time pastor in the United
Kingdom, Samuel Kayode, has been sentenced to nine
years in prison for stealing £4.1million.
Kayode was sentenced on Friday by Woolwich Crown Court
in South London for defrauding Haberdashers’ Aske’s state
schools in the UK.
The part-time pastor, who earned £57, 000 per annum,
was convicted after being found guilty of £150,000 theft
and £3.95million fraud.
Out of the £4.1million, only £800, 000 was recovered from
him.
Described as “dishonest” and “greedy”, the court heard
how Kayode lavished the stolen money on four women,
his wife, Grace; a second ‘wife’ in Nigeria, Olubunmi
Halima; and two other women in the UK.
British prosecutor, James Thacker, said he also bought
luxury cars including a Mercedes, an Audi TT sports car
and an Infiniti car with the money.
The court also heard how for seven years the convict
looted the accounts of Haberdashers. He was said to be
secretive, locking himself in his office to work late, “after
arriving in a Mercedes, wearing £500 Gucci shoes and
carrying a Louis Vuitton briefcase.”
Thacker said the father of four from Ilford, East London,
was too arrogant to admit his guilt even after he was
caught red-handed in 2012.
Kayode tried to blame the crime on his late wife and a
junior colleague, saying that they conspired to tarnish his
image by transferring the money to his account in revenge
for his adultery.
His crime was exposed when a school cleaner stumbled
across some of Kayode’s documents. The cleaner was said
to make an anonymous call to the schools’ Chief Finance
Officer, Yvonne Smithers.
The accounts manager started work at Haberdashers’ –
which has links with the public schools of the same name –
in 1997.
According to the prosecutor, Kayode started using the
BACS money transfer system (a system in the UK for
making payments directly from one bank account to
another) in 2006, to put “tens of thousands at a time
directly into a joint account held with wife Grace. He then
spent up to £98,000 a month.”
Apart from spending money on his wife’s health care until
her death in 2013, Kayode also signed documents showing
he was making investments with Halima, and renting flats
in Kent for ‘partners’ Toyin Lawal and Yetunde Turtak. punchng.com/uk-jails-nigerian-pastor-nine-years/ |
Re: UK Jails Nigerian Pastor Nine Years by JBismarck(m): 6:15pm On Jun 27, 2016 |
Obodo oyinbo no be Naija, you commit the crime there, you do the time |
Re: UK Jails Nigerian Pastor Nine Years by kozmokaz(m): 6:44pm On Jun 27, 2016 |
Samuel kayode tango 1 tango 1 this is kozmokaz reporting for NCAN ogbirhill branch I need air support !!! Cux I will soon b coming under artillery fire from my brothers from the west!! |
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