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P&ID Scam: Ill-Health Stalls Grace Taiga’s Corruption Trial
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Justice O.A. Adeniyi of the Federal Capital Territory High Court sitting in Abuja on Tuesday, June 28, 2022, adjourned the trial of a former director, Legal Services of the Ministry of Petroleum Resources, Mrs. Grace Taiga until September 29, 2022 for continuation of trial.
Taiga is facing prosecution by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC for an alleged fraud involving the Process and Industrial Development, (P&ID).
At today’s sitting, defence counsel, Daniel Alumun, urged the court to grant an adjournment on the grounds that the defendant was on admission at the Garki Hospital, where she is also scheduled to undergo dialysis.
Alleged $1.2 million Fraud: Court Adjourns American Businessman's Trial Till August 10
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Justice Mojisola Dada of the Special Offences Court sitting in Ikeja, Lagos, Tuesday 28th, June, 2022, adjourned till August 10, 2022, for further trial in the case involving one Marco Antonio Ramirez, an American businessman who is being prosecuted on an amended 16-count charge bordering on obtaining money under false pretence contrary to Section 1 (3) of the Advance Fee Fraud and Other Fraud Related Offences Act 2006.
The defendant, is being prosecuted by the Lagos Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, alongside his companies USA NOW LLC, Eagle Ford Instalodge Group LP, and USA Now Energy Capital Group LP for an alleged $1.2 million EB-5 visa scam.
Court Convicts Man in Maiduguri for N20m Fraud
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Justice Aisha Kumaliya of the Borno State High Court sitting in Maiduguri has convicted and sentenced one Modu Ali Kotoko to one year imprisonment for cheating to the tune of N20,000, 000.00 (Twenty Million Naira).
Kotoko was first arraigned on January 1, 2021 and pleaded not guilty to the one count charge preferred against him, setting the stage for trial in which prosecution counsel, Mukhtar Ali Ahmed, presented one witness.
At the resumed hearing of the case on June 28, 2022, Kotoko changed his plea and pleaded ‘guilty’ to an amended charge.
EFCC Arraigns Suspected Fraudster for N7.5m Forex Scam in Abuja
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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has arraigned Nyani Kubiliru Gabriel before Justice S.U. Bature of the Federal Capital Territory High Court, Maitama, Abuja, for alleged foreign exchange fraud.
Gabriel was arraigned on four-count charges bordering on obtaining money under false pretence, cheating, fraudulent conversion and criminal breach of trust.
AC Technician, Three Others Jailed for Cybercrime in Ilorin
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The Ilorin Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has secured the conviction of one Pelumi Oluwatimileyin Sunday, an air conditioner technician, over offences bordering on cybercrime.
Pelumi was sentenced alongside three others over similar offence. They are Uloko George Ojonugwa, a student of Federal University, Lokoja; Godspower Fatodun Sesan from Ilawe-Ekiti in Ekiti South-West Local Government Area of Ekiti State and one Blessing Tope Abejide.
The quartet of Pelumi, Uloko, Godspower and Blessing were prosecuted on separate charges before Justice Muhammed Sani of the Federal High Court sitting in Ilorin.
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