Nigerian actress, Simi Gold, has been found guilty by a court and sentenced to six months in prison for spraying and stepping on new Naira notes. The verdict was delivered by Justice Chukwujekwu Aneke of the Federal High Court in Ikoyi, Lagos, on February 1, 2024. Simi Gold, also known as Oluwadarasimi Omoseyin, was initially charged by the Lagos Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on February 13, 2023, with two counts, to which she pleaded “not guilty.” She was subsequently 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.”
