Justice Josephine Oyefeso of the Lagos State High Court, Igbosere, on Monday sentenced a fraudster, Tunde Martins, to seven years’ imprisonment for N30m fraud.

The convict had obtained the said sum as a loan from Diamond Bank Plc with a forged certificate of occupancy and refused to pay back.

His journey to prison began after he was arraigned alongside his company, Centre Global Limited by the Lagos Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission in 2018 on three counts bordering on obtaining by false pretences, forgery and use of false documents, to which he pleaded not guilty.

During Martins’ trial, the prosecution counsel, Anita Imo, tendered several documents as exhibits and called five witnesses.

According to the Head of Media and Publicity, EFCC, Wilson Uwujaren, Justice Oyefeso found Martins guilty of the offences on September 23, 2020, but deferred ruling to Monday, September 28, 2020.

Delivering her judgment, Oyefeso sentenced the convict to seven years’ imprisonment without an option of fine.

She also ordered that his company, Centre Global Limited, be wound up and all the money accrued from it remitted to Diamond Bank Plc.

Meanwhile, Justice Ladiran Akintola of the Oyo State High Court in Ibadan on Monday sentenced one Adeniran Adesina, aka Bella Danner, to six months’ imprisonment after finding him guilty of obtaining money under false pretences.

Adesina was charged to court by the EFCC, Ibadan Zonal Office, on one count.

The charge read, “That you, Adeniran Rasheed Adesina (a.k.a. Bella Danner), sometime in 2019, at Ibadan, within the jurisdiction of this honourable court, with intent to defraud, obtained various gift cards worth of $250 from one Luis Barrera, a white male, when you falsely represented to him that you are a white female by name Bella Danner that is in love with him and other pretences, which representations you knew to be false.”

Adesina pleaded guilty to the charge read to him, prompting the EFCC’s counsel, Lanre Abdulrasheed, to pray the court to convict him accordingly.

However, counsel for the defendant, Hammed Opasola, urged the court to consider community service sentence.

Akintola jailed the accused for six months with effect from the date of his arrest, June 30, 2020.

The court also ordered him to refund his victim through the EFCC.

He equally forfeited his Infinix Hot5 mobile phone to the Federal Government.

Source: https://punchng.com/man-jailed-seven-years-for-n30m-fraud-in-lagos/

70% of Nigerian youths don't have legit work.

IamD18:
70% of Nigerian youths don't have legit work.

How you arrived @ 70% baffles me

How long will Akpabio be jailed once he's convicted?

Oh, I forgot, he's with the ruling party

Small thieves are being jailed. Nice one.

...when will the big thieves in government - Oshiomole, Apkabio, Yusuf (NHIS), madam disaster, etc, be sent to jail?
Are their sins already forgiven as Oshiomole said?
Buhari is paiting kwaraption indeed.

Good riddance to rubbish.

Good for him. Enjoy your spoils in prison. Forged documents at your age. Nigeria generation what is going on

SAY NO TO CRIME!!

Dem no dey telli person.

One day una monkey go go market, e no go ever come home again.

Legitimate business pays.

God bless all the legit hustlers out there.

God bless our hustles.

It will end in praise for us all.

We Rise!

hmm,,we have different types of way to fraud,, na so my best friend scam me 50k yrs back,, this life no balance jor

Let justice be duly served...

SOFTENGR:
Small thieves are being jailed. Nice one.

...when will the big thieves in government - Oshiomole, Apkabio, Yusuf (NHIS), madam disaster, etc, be sent to jail?
Are their sins already forgiven as Oshiomole said?
Buhari is paiting kwaraption indeed.

Please get a life. This zombism is unhealthy.

Be out in no time

I'd always tell anyone that Poverty still remains the parent of revolution and crime.

IamD18:
70% of Nigerian youths don't have legit work.

When was the poll conducted?

Aflix:
You this wannabe, you had better stop this nonsense you are doing. It doesn't fit you.
Always online looking for ways to praise Buhari

So the owner of the moniker is not dem [/b] again, it is now [b] wannabe?
You wailers and enemies of this nation are just so confused sha.

You have tagged over 127 people on Nairaland to be the same people as us.
Anybody that types GOD BLESS NIGERIA is now dem [/b].
Anybody that pray for our darling nation must be one of them at [b].
Anybody that types any positive thing about Nigeria must be from [/b].
Anybody that says no to [b]FRAUD AND FRAUDSTERS is a member of dem MANNA crew.
Anybody that says NO TO DRUGS must be from [/b].
Anybody that preaches about [b]JESUS CHRIST, is a Pastor from MANNA.
We can't count how many times, some dumb people said in derogatory ways,
that [/b] is the same person as [b]Righteousness89, only because he talks about JESUS CHRIST the same way we have been doing for many years here, ( the person has replied them many times, we guess he is tired of doing that now!)

Well in all these, people can now understand the kind of people that don't like dem MANNA, it shows those kinda people are criminals, fraudsters, losers, psychiatric patients, miserable souls, enemies of Nigeria and never do well in life.
600 years of what they wish for Nigeria go back to them in 600 folds...( 600 times 600 ...go do the math, losers!)

Dear SilverNorGold,
the Bible says we should be imitators of good things,
Keep up the good work brotherly.
God bless you and all sane and honest Nigerians/Nairalanders.

SilverNorGold:

God bless you and other patriots for your love and sacrifice for this great nation.

Enemies can only bark, they can't bite..

A wise man said, if you keep throwing stones at every dog that barks at you, you'll not get to your destination. So let them wail, let them bark.. We'll not relent until project Nigeria, the Nigeria of our dreams; the Nigeria that will put first world countries to shame; a prosperous Nigeria is achieved...

God bless President Buhari.
God bless Professor Osinbajo.
God bless all our Patriots.
God bless the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

Amen.
God bless you and yours.....always.

E don happen!

Motor don jam am.

SOPHISTICATED PEOPLE

These fraudsters have dealt with Nigeria. No be small.

And now this fool can never operate a bank account in Nigeria again, even when he's married

Ok.... If you check am well him no use the money do sensible thing

Aug28th:

How you arrived @ 70% baffles me

The pointers he used is really mind boggling! I wished he could give us his analysis and research methods.

Or maybe his is one of those lazy Nigerian youths who just sits at home doing nothing but conclude on issues that he knows nothing about.

USE SAME ENERGY ON POLITICIANS TOO

Person go jail for $250 gift card?

Mad ooh

Will he vomit the money after the 7 years jail term?

The bank should also be blamed for not verifying a forged document before giving out loan.

TUNDE MARTINS

SOFTENGR:
Small thieves are being jailed. Nice one.

...when will the big thieves in government - Oshiomole, Apkabio, Yusuf (NHIS), madam disaster, etc, be sent to jail?
Are their sins already forgiven as Oshiomole said?
Buhari is paiting kwaraption indeed.

There's nothing like small thieves.

Aug28th:

How you arrived @ 70% baffles me

Me too because i am sure that it is more than that 70 percent

While those that stole 6 Billion, remain unpunished......

See him eyes

Why you no use picker... Even after collecting iTunes GC how on earth where you traced

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