The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) has secured the conviction of a staff member of the Nigeria Immigration Service, Quadri Adeyinka, for committing a travel passport fraud.
The ICPC arraigned Adeyinka before Justice Jude Onwuegbuzie of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) High Court, Apo, Abuja, on a four-count bordering on gratification, conferment of corrupt advantage, and cheating.
The anti-graft agency said the offenses were contrary to extant provisions of the Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Act, 2000, and the Penal Code Act.
Counsel to the ICPC, Dr. Osuobeni Ekoi Akponimisingha, led evidence before the court on how Mr. Adeyinka defrauded Mr. Ovie Justice Ojeffia under the pretense of regularising the latter’s international passport.
Adeyinka was said to have received the sum of N100,000 from Ojeffia to regularise the said passport but reneged.
The victim thereafter petitioned ICPC, which led to the investigation and arraignment of the convict before the court.
In his judgment, 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.
