Crime
Mother of Yahoo Boy jailed
The mother of Endurance Osarumwense, an alleged internet fraudster a.k.a. ‘Yahoo boy’, has been sentenced.
Mrs Debest Osarumwense bagged five years in prison in Benin, the Edo State capital.
Justice M. S. Shuaibu of the Federal High Court in Benin delivered judgment on Tuesday, after the EFCC prosecuted her on a one-count charge for aiding her son.
Debest was found guilty of receiving N91, 296,150 “being proceeds of his criminal activities.”
The judge convicted and sentenced Debest after she pleaded guilty upon arraignment by the anti-graft agency.
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