A 55-year-old man, Bello Nosiru
Yinka, has been sentenced to one year imprisonment for procuring fake visa of
all agencies and high commissions by the Police Special Fraud Unit (SFU).
The convict was sentenced by an
Igbosere Magistrate court. Yinka was arraigned before Magistrate Abosede Botoku
in court 2 Igbosere.
The Police Public Relations Officer
(PPRO), SFU, a Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP), Audu Lawal, in a
statement yesterday said that the convict, a notorious documents vendor, who
specialized in faking visas of all Embassies and High Commission was arrested
by operatives of SFU after the American Consulate General complaint about
Yinka’s fraudulent activities.
He said: “The convict had procured
fake French Visa for one applicant, who appeared at the Consulate General for
B1 B2 visa category.”
According to Lawal, the activity of
visa vendors has affected genuine visa applicants who didn’t know about how
visas of all categories are applied and obtained.
Lawal said: "The embassies and
the high commission are there for information needed to apply for Visa. Again
fake visa or documents makers are advised to desist from the unholy act otherwise
the long arm of the law will always catch up with them. Also, prospective
visa applicants should be wary of fraudsters parading themselves as visa agents.
No embassy or high commission appoints any person or group of persons to act as
Visa agent.”
The image maker said that the arrest
of the convict, investigation and successful prosecution were major
breakthroughs as the convict had been in the business of printing fake visas
and other documents for decades.
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