A U.S. ex-convict named Kolawole Erinle was given a 12-year prison term on Tuesday by an Ikeja Special Offenses Court for defrauding the Kansas City University of Medicine and Biosciences of $1.4 million.
According to the News Agency of Nigeria, Erinle was found guilty on three counts related to conspiracy, keeping the proceeds of criminal activity, and getting money by false pretense, and Justice Rahman Oshodi sentenced her to five years in prison.
Oshodi ruled that the prosecution had successfully established its case against the defendant and his company beyond a reasonable doubt and that they were guilty as charged.
The prosecution said that Erinle faked the domain name of jedunn.com to jedunn.org in order to impersonate the email address of J.E. Dunn’s financial controller. “a deliberate move in which you gave Bank of America account information under the name of E. Dada Autos when KCUMB was going to pay J.E. Dunn”.
“And following the wire transfer of 1.4 million dollars into it, in March 2019, you ordered the money to be transferred into the account of the second inmate, which you also control, in tranches of 850,000 dollars and 460,000 dollars.
“The evidence demonstrates that you, Erinle, transferred the proceeds of your crime to your nominees, including your mother and wife, as well as acquiring vehicles and other properties as shown in exhibits P to P1.”
The prosecutor’s claims that the criminal had previously been convicted of bank fraud in the US were also taken into consideration by the judge, who added that the offender had not improved.
“I have taken into account the fact that, after receiving a sentence of 23 months in jail, which you confirmed to me, you have not stopped committing crimes.
The prosecutor’s claims that the criminal had previously been convicted of bank fraud in the US were also taken into consideration by the judge, who added that the offender had not improved.
“I have taken into account the fact that after receiving a sentence of 23 months in jail, which you verified to me, you have not stopped committing crimes. Although you claimed to be sorry, I do not think you are sincere in your regret. I have therefore regarded the aforementioned as aggravating factors. I hereby find you guilty of counts two and three, and you are hereby sentenced to five years for count two and fifteen years for count three, he said”.
Oshodi mandated that the sentencing begin immediately after the court’s February 10 remand of the defendant.
The Federal Government would receive the revenues from the liquidation of the convict’s company, Rinde-Remdex Nigeria Ltd., which was ordered by the Corporate Affairs Commission and fined N50 million, according to NAN.
The offender was also required to pay the victim back in full, with any assets and cars that had been taken from them by the EFCC to be liquidated and sent back to the victim through the FBI.