A Federal Capital Territory High Court in Apo convicted Quadri Adeyinka, an immigration officer, to seven years in prison for passport fraud.
Adeyinka was charged with four charges of gratification, conferment of corrupt advantage, and cheating, all of which violated the Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Act, 2000, and the Penal Code Act.
Adeyinka was claimed to have accepted N100,000 from one Ovie Ojeffia to regularise his passport but then reneged.
The victim then petitioned the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission, which conducted an investigation and arraigned the convict in court.
The victim then petitioned the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission, which conducted an investigation and arraigned the convict in court.
In a statement issued on Sunday, the commission’s Acting Director of Public Enlightenment and Education, Demola Bakare, stated that the judge found him guilty of all of the charges brought against Adeyinka.
The statement partly read, “ICPC has secured the conviction of one Quadri Ismail Adeyinka, a staff of the Nigeria Immigration Service for committing a travelling passport fraud.
“The Commission had arraigned the convict of the Federal Capital Territory High Court, Apo, Abuja on a four counts.
“Counsel to the ICPC, Dr Osuobeni Ekoi Akponimisingha had, in the course of the trial, led evidence before the court on how Mr Adeyinka defrauded one Mr Ovie Justice Ojeffia under the pretence of regularizing the latter’s international passport.
“In his judgement, Justice Onwuegbuzie found Mr Adeyinka guilty on all four counts and sentenced him to seven years each for counts 1 and 2, five years for count 4, and two years for count 3.
“The sentences are to run concurrently.”
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