Simi Gold bags six months imprisonment for spraying and stepping on new Naira notes
Nigerian actress Simi Gold has been sentenced to six months in prison by a court after being found guilty of spraying and stepping on newly minted naira notes.
Justice Chukwujekwu Aneke of the Federal High Court in Ikoyi, Lagos, handed down the verdict on Thursday, February 1, 2024. The court convicted and sentenced actress Oluwadarasimi Omoseyin for the aforementioned actions during a social event in Lagos.
Initially charged on February 13, 2023, by the Lagos Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), she pleaded “not guilty” to two counts. She was later granted bail on February 15, 2023.
One of the court reads: “That you, Oluwadarasimi Omoseyin, on the 28th day of January 2023, at Monarch Event Centre, Lekki, Lagos, within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court, whilst dancing during a social occasion tampered with the sum of N100,000.00 (One Hundred Thousand Naira) issued by the Central Bank of Nigeria by spraying same in the said occasion and you thereby committed an offence contrary to and punishable under Section 21(1) of the Central Bank Act, 2007.”
