The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Ibadan Zonal Office on Monday, February 22, 2021, arraigned one Mary Maisirat Akerele...
...on a five count charge bordering on stealing to the tune of Thirty Five Million Five Hundred and Twenty Thousand Naira (N35,520,000.00) before Justice Abiodun Akinyemi of the Ogun State High Court 4, Abeokuta.
Trouble started for the 46-years-old socialite, who resides in Aseko area of Idiroko Ogun State, when the EFCC received a petition, alleging that she collected the said sum in installments from one Alhaja Oladoja Abike...
...for the purpose of supplying four truck-load of rice from a rice milling company at Bida, Niger state but diverted the funds.
One of the charge reads: " That you Mary Masirat Akerele (trading under the name and style of Goodness of Jesus Global Ventures) on or about the 19th day of September, 2018 at Abeokuta within the Abeokuta Judicial Division of the Honourable Court,...
...fraudulently converted to the your own use the sum of Eleven Million Naira (N11, 000,000.00) only property of Fausia Abike Oladoja and thereby committed an offence of stealing contrary to Section 390(9) of the Criminal Code, Cap. 30, laws of Ogun State, 2006”.
The defendant pleaded ‘not guilty’ when the charge was read to her.
Counsel to the defendant, H. A. Omikunle made an oral application for his client’s bail.
However, Shamsuddeen Bashir, counsel to EFCC, opposed the application due to the defendant's failure to keep the terms of the administrative bail earlier granted her.
Justice Akinyemi adjourned the case till March 4 for determination of the bail application an ordered the remand of the defendant in the Nigerian Correctional Centre, Ibara, Abeokuta.
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EFCC Arraigns Former Banker, Two Others For N14m Fraud
A former banker, Ugwumba Evangeline and two other suspected fraudsters, were on Monday, February 24, 2021 arraigned by the Port Harcourt Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC,..
...before Justice E. N. Anyadike of the Federal High Court sitting in Umuahia, Abia State on four-count charges bordering on conspiracy, and obtaining money by false pretence to the tune of N14,100,000 (Fourteen Million, One Hundred Thousand Naira only).
The other two defendants are: Onyekachi Christian Nwagbo and Chiwendu Okeke.
They pleaded "not guilty" to the charges when they were read to them.
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Ibadan Zonal Office, on Monday, February 22, 2021, secured conviction of one Oluwatoyin Henry before Justice Sherifat Adeyemi of the Oyo State High Court, sitting in Ibadan, Oyo State on one count of obtaining by false pretence.
The charge reads: “That you Oluwatoyin Henry sometimes in 2019, at Ogbomosho, within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court, with intent to defraud, obtained the sum of One Thousand Two Hundred United States of America Dollars (USD$1,200) from one Betty Mosley,...
How Akingbola Bypassed Protocols to Transfer Fund Offshore - Witness
The ongoing trial of Erastus Akingbola, a former Group Managing Director of the defunct Intercontinental Bank, continued on February 19, 2021 before Justice A. O. Faji of a Federal High Court, Ikoyi, Lagos...
...with a witness of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Babatunde Aro, narrating how the defendant allegedly bypassed banking protocols to transfer $11.8million and £8.54million offshore without recourse to the bank's standard procedures.
Akingbola is being prosecuted by the EFCC for an alleged N179billion fraud committed by him while he held sway at the Bank. He is alleged to have perpetrated the fraud using suspicious financial transactions. He pleaded "not guilty" to the allegations.
Absence of Co-defendants Stalls Stella Oduah’s Arraignment
The planned arraignment of former minister of aviation Stella Adaeze Oduah before Justice Inyang Ekwo of the Federal High Court Abuja could not commence due to the absence some of the suspects.
Though Oduah who is Senator representing Anambra North in the National Assembly was present in court, the fifth and sixth defendant in the charge were alsent.
Oduah was schedule to be arraigned on a 25-count charge of money laundering alongside Gloria Odita, Nwobu Emmanuel Nnamdi, Chukuma Irene Chinyere, Global Offshore and Marine Limited,...
Electrician, Surety Jailed for Internet Fraud & Impersonation
The Ilorin and Kaduna Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC on Thursday February 18, 2021 secured the conviction of two persons, Oyeniran Olamilekan and Umar Gambo for offences that border on internet fraud and impersonation.
28-year-old Olamilekan, an Electrician, was sentenced to six months imprisonment by Justice Adenike Akinpelu of the Kwara State High Court sitting in Ilorin on one count of internet fraud.
N714m Scam: Witness Narrates How N159m was Traced to Turaki’s Account
The trial of former Minister of Special Duties and Inter-governmental Affairs, Kabiru Tanimu Turaki continued today Thursday, February 18, 2021 before Justice Inyang Ekwo of the Federal High Court, Abuja...
...with the twelfth prosecution witness, PW12, Bello Hamma Adama narrating to the court how N159,104,000 (One Hundred and Fifty-nine Million, One Hundred and Four Thousand Naira)...
...out of the N329,104,000 (Three Hundred and Twenty-nine Million, One Hundred and Four Thousand Naira) that was meant for the sensitization of Muslim youths was diverted.