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<\/p>\nThe 29-year-old, DAILY POST learnt operated with the pseudonym David Riger, was found guilty of a one-count charge of obtaining money by false pretence filed against him by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Ibadan zonal office.<\/p>\n
The anti-graft spokesman, Wilson Uwujaren, disclosed this in a statement in Abuja.<\/p>\n
He added, \u201cThe offence runs contrary to Section 419 of the Criminal Code, Cap 38, Laws of Oyo State, 2000. He pleaded guilty to the charge when read to him. The plea was consequent upon a plea bargain agreement between him and the Commission.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhile relating with his victim, John had falsely presented himself as a white man to gain access and subsequently preyed on her.<\/p>\n
\u201cDue to the \u2018guilty\u2019 plea, the EFCC counsel, Abdulrasheed Lanre Suleman, prayed the court to adopt the conditions of the plea bargain agreement which included restitution of the sum in question to the owner and forfeiture of items recovered from him.<\/p>\n
\u201cJustice Taiwo granted the prayers as he ordered that the convict pays back the $1,450 to the owner through the EFCC.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe also held that the Tecno phone recovered from him in the course of investigation be forfeited to the Federal Government of Nigeria.<\/p>\n
\u201cHis conviction takes effect from his day of arrest\u201d.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Justice Bayo Taiwo of the Oyo State High Court, on Wednesday, sentenced Wright Shola John to one year imprisonment for defrauding an American citizen, Erica Hegge, of the sum of $1,450. The 29-year-old, DAILY POST learnt operated with the pseudonym David Riger, was found guilty of a one-count charge of obtaining money by false pretence […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":162550,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[2658,7851],"class_list":["post-162549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-a","tag-yahoo-boys"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=162549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162549\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/162550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=162549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=162549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=162549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}