Anti-corruption and elections / EFCC

Love Scammer Jailed in Osogbo

An Osun State High Court, sitting in Osogbo has sentenced one Adeniyi Ebenezzar (aka Mary Oliver) to four months in prison in a fraud charge brought against him by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Ibadan zonal office. Justice W. O. Akanbi of the State High Court 3 gave the verdict in Osogbo on Wednesday after Adeniyi settled for plea bargain and his hitherto three-count charge was replaced with a lone-count charge of obtaining money under false pretense, contrary to section 1(3) of Advanced Fee Fraud and Other Fraud Related Offences Act 2006. Operatives of the Commission had…