Mark Zuckerberg’s Impostor, Jatto, Others Jailed for cybercrime in Kwara


One Jatto Sheriff Umar, 21, claiming to be the founder of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, in order to defraud unsuspecting victims via online relationship has been convicted and jailed by a Kwara state High Court sitting in Ilorin for offences bordering on impersonation and cybercrime.

The Ilorin Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) also secured the conviction of five other persons for similar offences.

They are Oguntoyinbo Oluwatobi Damilola, Taiwo Akinyemi Kayode, Adebayo Adeola Mark, Adedoyin Olayinka and Yusuf Alameen Abiodun.

While the quartet of Jatto, Damilola, Taiwo and Mark were prosecuted before Justice Mahmud Abdulgafar, Justice Adenike Akinpelu heard the cases of Olayinka and Abiodun.

The defendants pleaded guilty to their separate charges.

Innocent Mbachie represented the EFCC in the cases before Justice Abdulgafar, while R. E Alao prosecuted for the Commission in the cases before Justice Akinpelu.

The two Counsel urged the courts to take notice of the confessional statements and the guilty plea entered by the defendants as well as the evidences tendered against them, which included the devices used in perpetrating the crime by convicting and sentencing the defendants as charged.

Justice Abdulgafar sentenced Jatto (Zuckerberg’s impostor) to six months imprisonment each on counts one and two, to run concurrently at Mandala Correctional Centre. The sentences are suspended, but the convict would be reporting to official of the Correctional Centre. The court also ordered the forfeiture of his iphone 12 pro, laptop and manager’s cheque, which he raised as restitution to his victims.

The judge gave Damilola a suspended sentence of six months imprisonment on counts one and two, to run concurrently, while ordering the forfeiture of the phone used to perpetrate the crime to the federal government.

Justice Abdulgafar also sentenced Taiwo to a suspended term of six months imprisonment. The court ordered that the convict’s Black Toyota Corolla Car with registration number LRN237RA, Dell Laptop, and one Iphone 11 pro be forfeited to the federal government.

Similar sentence was imposed on Mark as the court sentence him to a term of six months imprisonment, which would be suspended, while ordering the forfeiture of the phone used in committing the crime.

On the other hand, Justice Akinpelu sentenced Olayinka to six months imprisonment each on counts one and two, to run concurrently with option of fine of N200,000 on each count.

In the same vein, the judge sentenced Abiodun to six months imprisonment with option of fine of N200,000. The court also ordered the forfeiture of a draft of N135,000 raised as restitution to the victim of the crime as well as iphone XR used as instrumentality of the crime.


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