Mother of a suspected Internet fraudster, Mrs Debest Osarumwense, has been sentenced to five years in prison in Benin, the Edo State capital.
Justice M. S. Shuaibu of the Federal High Court in Benin gave the ruling on Tuesday.
The woman was found guilty of receiving N91, 296,150 “being proceeds of his criminal activities.”
Debest is the mother of Endurance Osarumwense, the suspected internet fraudster a.k.a. ‘Yahoo boy’.
She was prosecuted by the Economic and Financial Crimes for aiding her son.
The judge convicted and sentenced Debest after she pleaded guilty upon arraignment by the anti-graft agency.
