Photo: Fake University agent sentenced to 9 years in prison

Find the EFCC press release below…

Justice Dije Abdu Aboki of Kano State High Court
on Friday Oct. 10, 2014 convicted and sentenced
one Abdul Auwal Yahaya to nine and half years
imprisonment without option of fine on six count
charges bordering on conspiracy, obtaining
money by false pretense and forgery.

The convict was arraigned on November 18, 2013 by
the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission
before Justice Aboki for allegedly conniving with one
Bashir Ahmed Haruna (already convicted) and
obtaining the sum N2, 027,000 (Two Million, twenty
seven thousand) under the pretext that he is an agent
of Future University, Cairo and was capable of
securing admission into the institution for the
children of the complainant.

The convict is to serve seven years imprisonment on
count two while in respect of counts one, three, four,
five and six, he is to serve six months imprisonment
each. The convict was also ordered to pay the sum of
N2, 027,000 in restitution to the complainant.
The sentences shall run concurrently and will start
from the date of arraignment.