Ex-banker jailed 98 Years for Stealing N49m, $368,000 from employer

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A former staff member of First Bank of Nigeria Limited, Oreoluwa Adesakin, has been jailed for 98 years for stealing.

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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC had filed a charge of theft against the ex-banker. Adesakin was accused of stealing N49m and $368,000 from her employers.

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Justice Muniru Olagunju of the Oyo State High Court sentenced her to  a cumulative 98 years in prison on Monday, September 28, 2020, for fraud.

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In another development, Justice Ladiran Akintola of the Oyo State High Court in Ibadan, on Monday,  sentenced one Adeniran Rasheed Adesina (a.k.a. Bella Danner) to six months in prison after finding him guilty of obtaining money under false pretence in a one-count charge filed against him by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Ibadan zonal office.

The charge reads: “That Adeniran Rasheed Adesina (a.k.a. Bella Danner) sometimes in 2019, at Ibadan, within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court, with intent to defraud obtained various gift cards worth of $250 (Two Hundred and Fifty United States Dollars) 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”.

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

However, counsel to the defendant, Hammed Opasola prayed the court to consider a sentence of community service.

Justice Akintola sentenced the accused to six months in prison with effect from the date of his arrest, June 30, 2020.

 

 

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