An uncertain internet scammer, Damilola Ahmed Adeyeri along with his mother, Alaba Kareem Adeyeri, happen to be guilty on a four-count charge of treason and getting money worth of $82,570 which is about N29.9million under false pretence.
Justice Chukwujekwu Aneke of the Federal High Court, Ikoyi, Lagos, found the woman and her son guilty of all counts and therefore sentenced them to three years each in a correctional centre. The sentences for each count would run concurrently. He further ordered that properties and assets gotten from the convicts should be forfeited to the Federal Government and restitution should be made to the convicts if they apply for it.
The convicts got arrested in line with a petition from the US FBI against Damilola Adeyeri and plenty others on an alleged case of conspiracy, Obtaining money under false pretence.
After much investigation from the operatives of the commission, they found out that his mother was an accomplice in the conspiracy and money laundry.
An investigator in EFCC, Idi Musa, while being led in evidence narrated to the court that in April 2019 that a petition was received from the FBI, stating that the official email address of American Cranes Manufacturing company was hacked and as a result the sum of $82, 570. 00 was stolen by the convicts.Damilola was arrested on September 6, 2019, while his mother on hearing of her son's investigation went to withdraw money from the bank and she was arrested too. Money stolen by the convicts were used to acquire properties in Lagos all in Damilola's name.
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