A High Court sitting in Ilorin, Kwara State on Friday sentenced a 31-year-old student of the Kwara State Polytechnic, Ilorin, Bashiru Azeez, to six months imprisonment over $9,891 fraud.
Bashiru, who is a student in the Marketing Department of Kwara State Polytechnic, Ilorin, is also an indigene of Oyan in the Odo-Otin Local Government Area of Osun State,  
The accused person was charged with one count offence of defrauding a client of $9,891 by the Ilorin Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).
The charge read; “That you, Bashiru Azeez Seyi, sometime between July, 2020 and January, 2022 in Ilorin, within the jurisdiction of this Honorable Court knowingly had under your control the gross sum of $9,891 United States Dollars which you knew to be unlawfully obtained and thereby committed an offence contrary to and punishable under Section 319A of the Penal Code”
Bashiru pleaded guilty to the charge, following his plea, counsel to the EFCC, Sesan Ola, reviewed the facts of the case through a witness who is an operative of the commission.
The witness tendered the extra-judicial statements of the defendant, HP laptop, one RX 330 Lexus car and one phone in evidence of the crime against the defendant, following which the counsel urged the court to convict the defendant as charged.
The presiding Judge, Justice Adebayo Yusuf, in his judgment, sentenced the defendant to six months imprisonment with N200,000  as option of fine and  also ordered the forfeiture of the convict’s car, one iPhone XR, and HP laptop to the Federal Government.