Lead City University

According to report, A 1st class graduate from Lead City University, Ibadan, Olakunle Akanni, 23, has been sentenced to a 1 year imprisonment for defrauding an American woman, Diana Huizenga, 77, of over $12,000 (N1.92 million) through an internet love scamming.

Akanni who was sentenced today at an Ikeja High Court in Lagos, falsely presented himself  to Huizenga as one  Robert Lewis, a white American living in Nigeria.
He successfully used “love scam” to fleece the woman and even invited her to come to Nigeria with $90,000 before he was apprehended.
The judge, Lateef Lawal-Akapo sentenced 23-year-old Akanni alongside one of his accomplices, Adesina Akinsola, 30 after being found guilty of a two-count charge of conspiracy and obtaining money under false pretences preferred against them.


“The first defendant, Akanni, is to pay the sum of N2 million which is the equivalent of $12, 820 to the victim (Huizenga), as restitution.
“Also, the third defendant, Akinsola, is to pay the sum of N500, 000 to the victim as restitution,” the judge ordered.
He also ordered them to write an undertaking to be submitted to the EFCC that they would be of good behaviour upon their release from prison custody.

By gistyinka

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