By Jimoh Sulyman
On Tuesday, 26th of October, a suspect has made an appearance in Court over allegedly scamming of his victims by promising to help them process travelling documents to Oman and Dubai.
The suspect, Oluwatoyin Hassan, who claimed to be an agent for a travel agency, was brought before Magistrate Ibrahim Dasuki of Ilorin Magistrate Court by the men of SIB, Police Headquarters, Ilorin, the state capital.
According to the First Information Report (FIR) possessed by National Pilot, Hassan and 3 other suspects were charged with Criminal Conspiracy, Criminal breach of trust, cheating and criminal misappropriation which are in contrary to Section 97, 312, 322 and 309 of Penal Code Law respectively.
Other suspects are Abubakar, Wale and Bukola all of whom are presently still at large.
According to the police, suspect was reported to the station of SIB Police Headquarters, Ilorin by the complainant, Alhaji Alli Aduagba Gbagba on 18th of October, 2021.
Alhaji Aduagba reported that Hassan acclaimed himself to be a travel agent using one fictitious company named “Alhassan Dynamic Investment” dishonestly collected the sum of Three Million, Nine Hundred Thousand Naira (N3,900,000.00) from him and others.
It was said that Hassan collected the money through his bank Account No: 1017707935, Zenith Bank under the pretext of processing visa for a group ‘Seven Mekunu Forum’ through the Alhaji Aduagba into Oman and Dubai.
After the suspect had succeeded in swindling the complainant, he was said to have left Nigeria to hide in Dubai since January before sneaking back to Nigeria and hide himself somewhere in Osogbo where he was tracked down and arrested.
The Charge sheet has it that Hassan confessed to have shared the money with his accomplices, one Abubakar, Wale and Bukola all of whom are still at large.
Also in the course of investigation by the security operatives, many people came from various states alleging Hassan of collecting some money from them running into Millions of naira for the same fake visa process.
The suspect who was represented by Barr Toyin Onaolapo, pleaded guilty to the charge of falsely obtaining the sum of N3.9m from the complainant.
The counsel, Barrister Toyin pleaded to the court to grant his client bail based on his early admittance to the crime.
The court however granted the suspect bail because of his quick admittance and not wasting the court’s time with the sum of N500,000 with 2 sureties in some of N600,000 where one of the 2 sureties must be in at least level 10 of the State Civil Service.
Magistrate Ibrahim Ahmad Dasuki however, adjourned the matter till 6th of December for further mention.
