Saturday, May 18, 2024 - A Federal High Court in Ikoyi, has sentenced Aluko Tunmise to one year in prison for his involvement in a celebrity scam.
Tunmise was prosecuted by the Lagos Zonal
Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on a
cybercrime-related charge.
This was disclosed in a post on X by EFCC
on Friday, May 17.
The post reads
"Justice Chukwujekwu Aneke of the
Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos, on Wednesday, May 15, 2024,
convicted and sentenced one Aluko Tunmise, a self-acclaimed social media
influencer and model, to one year imprisonment for celebrity scam.
He was
arraigned by the Lagos Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes
Commission, EFCC, on a one-count charge bordering on cybercrimes.''
"One of the counts reads
'That you, ALUKO TUNMISE JUWONLO (A.K.A.
KEANU REEVES), sometime between January and March, 2024 in Lagos, within the
jurisdiction of this Honorable Court, directly made a false statement, wherein
you held yourself out as a white man by name "KEANU REEVES" on your
Telegram Account, knowing same to be false and with intent that the
representation is relied upon for the purpose of procuring the issuance of
financial instrument to yourself and thereby committed an offence contrary to
and punishable under Section 22(3) of the Cybercrimes (Prohibition, Prevention
etc) Act, 2015'.
He pleaded
'guilty' to the charge when it was read to him.
Following
his guilty plea, prosecution counsel, C.C.Okezie, sought to present an
operative of the EFCC, Vincent Sunday Kwambuge, to review the facts of the
matter.
Kwanbuge
told the court that the defendant was arrested sometime in March, 2024 at Lekki
County Estate, Lagos, following credible intelligence received by the
Commission on the activities of some internet fraudsters operating in the
area."
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