First Class Undergraduate sentenced to 13 Years Imprisonment.

Fisayo Adetoro, a final year, first class student has been found guilty of impersonation, forgery and money laundering, and sentenced to cumulative 13 years in prison and one million naira fine.

He was convicted by Justice Folashade Olubanjo of the Federal High Court 1, Akure, in a criminal case filed against him by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Ibadan zonal office.

His allegations, according to the charge sheet, include falsely representing himself to be Bawa Mohammed Sanni to defraud his victims to the tune of thousands of United States Dollars.

The undergraduate was said to have used a fake name to register for a Nigerian Driver’s Licence bearing his photograph, as well as laundering sums running to millions of naira.

He was sentenced to two years for falsification of documents (Count 2). and three years for uttering official document (Counts 3 and 4). He also received five years imprisonment with a fine of N1milion for money laundering (Count 6) and the jail terms are to run concurrently.

Justice Olubanjo, however, considered the convict for suspended sentence of six months community service. The judge yielded to his counsel’s pleadings which were premised on his health, academic standing and the fact that he had refunded all the money he fraudulently collected