A 45 year old driver, Adetunji Tunde Oluwasegun, has been sentence to two years imprisonment for fraudulently converting to personal use a sum of N2 million that was mistakenly sent to his account.
Tunde was on Monday arraigned by the Ilorin Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission [EFCC] on one–count charge bordering on stealing before Justice Sikiru Oyinloye of the Kwara State High Court sitting in Ilorin.
The commission says the offence contravenes Section 286 and punishable under Section 287 of the Penal Code.
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 honorable court dishonestly took the sum of two million naira, property of Sherifat Omolara Sanni, which she erroneously transferred to your bank account 0008383333 domiciled with Guaranty Trust Bank Plc, without her consent and thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 287 of the same Penal Court”.
The accused pleaded guilty to the charge.
Justice Oyinloye found Tunde guilty of the offence , and sentenced him to two years imprisonment with a fine of N200,000.
He also ordered the convict to restitute his victim the sum of N2M, before he finished serving his jail term
