A 42-year-old man, Muhammed Saleh, has been sentenced to two years imprisonment by Justice Abdulsalam Muhammad of the Gombe State High Court for offences bordering on cheating.
Saleh, who claimed to be an accredited MTN Virtual Top Up agent, had sometime in August 2020 approached and requested that his victim transfers airtime via VTU valued at N1.78 million in furtherance of a non-existent MTN promo.
He had promised to pay back part of the interest accruable to his victim within one week.
Two months later, it was discovered that he converted the VTU airtime to his personal use and all efforts to recover the money or VTU proved abortive.
The defendant pleaded guilty to the charge preferred against him by the Gombe Zonal Command of the EFCC.
Justice Muhammed found him guilty and sentenced to two years in prison and ordered to pay the sum of N780,000 as restitution to the victim through the Commission.