A Federal Capital Territory High Court in Apo has handed down a seven-year prison sentence to Quadri Adeyinka, an Immigration officer, for his involvement in passport fraud.
According to The PUNCH, Adeyinka was found guilty on four counts of gratification, corrupt advantage, and cheating, contrary to the Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Act and the Penal Code Act.
The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission had arraigned Adeyinka before Justice Jude Onwuegbuzie for receiving N100,000 from Ovie Ojeffia to regularize his passport, but failing to do so.
In a statement on Sunday, the commission’s Acting Director, Public Enlightenment and Education Demola Bakare, said the judge found him guilty of all the allegations preferred 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.”
