{"id":40002,"date":"2025-08-27T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsdemo.website\/?p=40002"},"modified":"2025-08-27T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T12:00:00","slug":"sting-operation-at-oopl-court-jails-additional-three-internet-fraudsters-in-lagos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/datelineafro.com\/?p=40002","title":{"rendered":"Sting Operation at OOPL: Court Jails Additional Three Internet Fraudsters in Lagos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Lagos Zonal Directorate 2 of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Wednesday , August 27, 2025, secured the conviction and sentence of three internet fraudsters before Justice D.I.Dipeolu of the Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos.<\/p>\n<p>The convicts are: Shodeinde Taiwo Samuel, Oyetunde Eniola Ayomide and Akinola Samuel Bolutife.<\/p>\n<p>They are among the 93 suspected fraudsters arrested in a sting operation on Sunday, August 10, 2025 at a hotel within the precincts of Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library, OOPL, Abeokuta, Ogun State.<\/p>\n<p>They were arraigned on Wednesday, August 27, 2025, on a one-count charge bordering on impersonation, identity and internet fraud.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230; (full article text continues here) &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The judge also convicted and sentenced Bolutife, who confessed to have benefited the sum of \u20ac25 , to one month imprisonment from the day of arrest, with the option of a N100,000 fine. The iPhone 6 pro and the N45,000 bank draft he issued as restitution were ordered forfeited to the Federal Government of Nigeria.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Lagos Zonal Directorate 2 of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Wednesday , August 27, 2025, secured the conviction and sentence of three internet fraudsters before Justice D.I.Dipeolu of the Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos. The convicts are: Shodeinde Taiwo Samuel, Oyetunde Eniola Ayomide and Akinola Samuel Bolutife. They are<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40011,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,139],"tags":[112,140,141,142,113],"class_list":{"0":"post-40002","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-crime-and-justice","8":"category-featured","9":"tag-efcc","10":"tag-federal-high-court","11":"tag-internet-fraud","12":"tag-lagos","13":"tag-oopl"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/datelineafro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/datelineafro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/datelineafro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/datelineafro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/datelineafro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/datelineafro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40002\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/datelineafro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/40011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/datelineafro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/datelineafro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/datelineafro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}