The Kaduna Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has secured the conviction of a woman identified as Oluwayemisi Samuel, and her son, Joshua, before the Kaduna State High Court on separate count charges, each bordering on false information.
In a statement on Wednesday, EFCC said that Oluwayemisi and Joshua squandered N5.6 million on sports betting and caused a false petition to be sent to the EFCC, alleging that the money was fraudulently withdrawn from their Opay account to a sports betting account by an unknown individual without their authorisation.
The mother and child pleaded guilty to the charges.
In view of their pleas, prosecution counsel, N. Salele urged the court to convict them accordingly.
Justice A. A Bello convicted and sentenced both defendants to seven years imprisonment with an option of N150,000 fine each.
