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Ekohotblog reports that one Adewale Tosin, an online fraudster, was sentenced by an Ibadan High Court on Friday to scrub the court grounds for six months.
Tosin was convicted by Justice Bayo Taiwo after pleading guilty to scamming an American man, Lylian Zamarippa, of $2,400 while pretending to be a female named Zielone Nyson.
Justice Taiwo ordered that the convict perform community service from 8 a.m. to noon every working day.
”The convict will serve two years imprisonment if he fails to show up for the community service or arrives late on any of the day, even if it occurred at the last day of the service.
”The convict must refund the 2,400 dollars to the victim and forfeit his SUV car, laptop and iPhone to the Federal Government,” the judge held.
Earlier, the Prosecuting Counsel, Mr Festus Ojo, informed the court that the convict committed the offence between February 2020 and January 2021.
Ojo said that the convict entered a plea bargain agreement with the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and urged the court to enter it as judgment of the court.
The Defence Counsel, Mr. M.A. Rufai, had pleaded with the court to convert the sentence to non-custodian or an option of fine.
In a related development, the Judge ordered another convicted internet fraudster, Tunde Adejuwon, to sweep the court premises for five months and to forfeit his Lexus car and blue iPhone to the Federal Government.
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