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Lagos Court jails ex-convict to 12 Years For $1.4m Fraud

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Last updated: 2023/10/06 at 8:30 PM
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Lagos Court jails ex-convict to 12 Years For $1.4m Fraud

A Lagos judge has convicted and sentenced a businessman, Kolawole Erinle, to twelve years imprisonment for $1.4m fraud.

According to a statement on Friday, October 6 by the Acting Head, Media and Publicity of the Economic Crimes and Commission (EFCC), Dele Oyewale, Erinle and his company, Rinde-Remdex Nigeria Limited were first arraigned before Justice Oluwatoyin Taiwo of the Special Offences Court sitting in Ikeja, Lagos, on March 11, 2022

He pleaded “not guilty”, but the case was reassigned to Justice Rahman Oshodi of the Special Offences Court in Ikeja due to the retirement of Justice Taiwo.

He was re-arraigned on October 28, 2022, before Justice Oshodi on three-count charges bordering on conspiracy, retention of proceeds of criminal conduct, and obtaining money under false pretence to the tune of $1,410,000 (One Million Four-Hundred and Ten Thousand United States Dollars).

One of the charges read, “Kolawole Adedayo Erinle and Edward Dada (still at large), sometime in 2019, at Lagos, within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court, conspired to falsely represent yourselves as J.E. Dunn, a local construction company in America, with intent to gain monetary advantage in the sum of $1,410,000 (One Million Four-Hundred and Ten Thousand United States Dollars) by creating a fake domain name jedunn.org and thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 8 of the Advance Fee Fraud and Other Related Offences Act No 14, 2006.”

The prosecution also presented evidence to prove that Erinle was an ex-convict in the United States for bank fraud.

A second charge read, “Kolawole Adedayo Erinle, Rinde-Remdex Nigeria Limited and Edward Dada (still at large) on or about the 3rd day of May 2019, at Lagos, within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court, retain the control of $1,410,000 (One Million Four-Hundred and Ten Thousand United States Dollars) in your Access Bank account, which sum you knew to be proceeds of various internet and cybercrime.”

He, again, pleaded “not guilty” to the charges.

Prosecution counsel, T.J. Banjo called four witnesses, through whom several documentary evidence were presented to prove the case against him and his company.

Justice Oshodi had on February 10, 2023, revoked the bail earlier granted to the defendant following an application by the prosecution showing that he never perfected the bail conditions granted earlier by Justice Taiwo.

Erinle, under cross-examination by the prosecution, admitted that he was an ex-convict in the US and spent 23 months in prison. He also expressed a change of mind to restitute his victim, saying, “I am sorry”.

Delivering judgment on September 26, 2023, Justice Oshodi declared the defendant and his company guilty as charged and also held that the prosecution effectively proved the case against them beyond every reasonable doubt.

Justice Oshodi held that, Erinle, “spoofed the email address of the financial controller of J.E. Dunn by faking the domain name of jedunn.com to jedunn.org”, an act which was “premeditated”, so that “when KCUMB was about to pay J.E. Dunn, you provided Bank of America details in the name of E. Dada Autos, and after the wire transfer of $1,412,509.40 into it, in March 2019, you caused the money to be transferred in tranches of $850,000 and $460,000 into the second convict’s account, which you also control”.

The trial judge further held that “The evidence shows that you transferred the proceeds of your crime to your nominees, including your mother, and your wife, and also acquired vehicles and other properties captured in exhibit P to P1.

“I have considered the prosecution’s submissions that you have a prior conviction for bank fraud in the United States of America.

“I have considered the fact that notwithstanding your prison term, which you have confirmed to me as sentencing for 23 months, you have not changed.

“I have considered the preceding as aggravating factors.

“You also told me that you are sorry, but I do not believe that you are genuinely remorseful, but you have said it.”

Justice Oshodi sentenced him to five years on count two, and 12 years on count three.



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