Justice Olubunmi Abike-Fadipe of a Special Offences Court, Ikeja, yesterday, sentenced a car dealer, Rasaki Wasiu Adeyiga, to seven years imprisonment for defrauding a businessman the sum of N24.2 million. 
  
Adeyiga was found guilty of a two-count charge leveled against him by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). He was alleged of defrauding a businessman, Ahmed Garba Shinkafi, on the pretence that the money represented the cost of two LEXUS GX 460 cars.
 
He was said to have obtained the money sometime in September 2020, with the intent to defraud, and converted the said sum to his use without supplying the Lexus Jeep. He, however, pleaded not guilty.
 
His alleged offences were punishable under Sections 1 (a) and (3) of the Advance Fee Fraud and Other Fraud Related Offences Act No. 14 of 2006.
  
The prosecuting counsel, Babatunde Sonoiki and Samuel Daji, who commenced trial following his plea of not guilty to the allegations, called four witnesses to prove the allegations against the defendant.
  
In her judgment, the judge held that the prosecution proved the case against the defendant and found him guilty as charged. The defendant’s counsel, however, pleaded for mercy, urging the court to grant him an option of fine being a first-time offender.
 
But the prosecution urged the court to sentence him as prescribed by law.After listening to counsel on both sides, the judge sentenced him to seven years imprisonment on count one, and two years on the second count. The judge, while ordering that the sentencing run concurrently, said that the convict must restitute the money to the victim.