Former Deputy Chief Registrar bags 7 years jail term over N9.2m fraud
A former Deputy Chief Registrar of the Oyo State High Court, Mutiat Omobola Adio has been sentenced to seven years imprisonment last Friday.
The Oyo State High Court found Adio guilty on count one of the two counts charge preferred against her.
She was said to have fraudulently obtained the sum of N9.2m from one Abiodun Rasheed Olonade, an Ireland based Nigerian.
The court had heard on Friday April 28, 2017 that she collected the money from her victim as money realized over the sale of a property at Bashorun Estate, Ibadan in December 2016, but failed to provide the title documents of the property to the buyer.
All efforts made by the victim to either recover the money or have possession of the property yielded no result.
Adio was convicted and sentenced to 7years Imprisonment without an option of fine. The court also ordered that she should return the N9.2m sum to the complainant.
