Simi Gold bags six months imprisonment for spraying and stepping on new Naira notes

Actress Simi Gold, from Nigeria, was found guilty by a court and sentenced to six months in prison for treading on and splashing fresh naira.

Actress Oluwadarasimi Omoseyin was found guilty and given a six-month prison sentence on Thursday, February 1, 2024, by Justice Chukwujekwu Aneke of the Federal High Court located in Ikoyi, Lagos, for strolling and spraying new Naira notes during a social gathering in Lagos.

She was initially charged with two charges by the Lagos Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on February 13, 2023, to which she entered a plea of “not guilty.”

She was eventually 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.”