It was a bitter lesson for a femal staff member of Sweet Sensation, Oluremi Olayinka as the Ogun State High Court, Abeokuta, presided over by Justice A. A. Akinyemi, sentenced her to 266 years imprisonment for stealing her employer’s N8m.
The Head of Media and Publicity of the Economic and Financial Commission, Mr. Wilson Uwujaren, said in a statement on Wednesday that the court found Olayinka guilty on all the 34 counts preffered against her.
Her company alerted EFCC after she made away with N8million handed to her by her employee.
Uwujaren said the presiding judge sentenced Olayinka to seven years on each of the 30 counts and an additional 14 years on four other counts.
According to him, the offences contravened ‘sections 390(6)(7)(8), 467 and 468 respectively of the Criminal Code, Cap 29, Law of Ogun State.’
He said the sentences would run concurrently which means that the convict would spent seven years in prison.
The EFCC spokesman said, Olayinka who was arraigned on May 13, 2014 in response to a petition on the allegations against her, was also ordered by the preciding judge to return the money.
She was said to have admitted stealing the money to the commission’s investigators, but later decided to plead not guilty to the charges against her when she was arraigned.
Uwujaren said that the commission presented four witnesses and 16 exhibits to prove the case against the lady.
The Head of Media and Publicity of the Economic and Financial Commission, Mr. Wilson Uwujaren, said in a statement on Wednesday that the court found Olayinka guilty on all the 34 counts preffered against her.
Her company alerted EFCC after she made away with N8million handed to her by her employee.
Uwujaren said the presiding judge sentenced Olayinka to seven years on each of the 30 counts and an additional 14 years on four other counts.
According to him, the offences contravened ‘sections 390(6)(7)(8), 467 and 468 respectively of the Criminal Code, Cap 29, Law of Ogun State.’
He said the sentences would run concurrently which means that the convict would spent seven years in prison.
The EFCC spokesman said, Olayinka who was arraigned on May 13, 2014 in response to a petition on the allegations against her, was also ordered by the preciding judge to return the money.
She was said to have admitted stealing the money to the commission’s investigators, but later decided to plead not guilty to the charges against her when she was arraigned.
Uwujaren said that the commission presented four witnesses and 16 exhibits to prove the case against the lady.
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