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Alleged N109bn Fraud: Court Remands Ex-AGF Idris in Prison
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- Written by Chinonso Igwe
Justice A. O. Adeyemi Ajayi of the Federal Capital Territory High Court, Maitama Abuja, remanded the suspended Accountant-General of the Federation, Ahmed Idris and his co-defendants: Godfrey Olusegun Akindele, Mohammed Kudu Usman in Kuje Correctional Centre pending the determination of their bail applications.
The trio were arraigned alongside a company, Gezawa Commodity Market and Exchange Limited, on a 14-count charge bordering on gratification, abuse of office and money laundering to the tune of over N109 billion fraud.
Count one of the charges reads, “That you, Ahmed Idris, between February and December, 2021 at Abuja, in the Abuja Judicial Division of the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory, being a public servant by virtue of your position as the Accountant General of the Federation, accepted from Olusegun Akindele, a gratification in the aggregate sum of N15,136,221,921.46 ( Fifteen Billion, One Hundred and Thirty Six Million, Two Hundred and Twenty One Thousand, Nine Hundred and Twenty One Naira and Forty Six Kobo), which sum was converted to the United States Dollars by the said Olusegun Akindele and which sum did not form part of your lawful remuneration but as a motive for accelerating the payment of 13% derivation to the nine (9) oil producing States in the Federation, through the office of the Accountant General of the Federation, and you, thereby, committed an offence contrary to Section 155 of the Penal Code Act Cap 532 Laws of the Federation of Nigeria 1990 and punishable under the same section”.
Cybercrime: Ex-convict, Thirty-two Others Arrested for Alleged Internet Fraud in Ibadan
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Operatives of the Ibadan Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC on Thursday, July 21, 2022 arrested a convicted internet fraudster, Okhiria Alex Chibueze and thirty-two others for alleged internet-related fraud.
The suspects were nabbed in a sting operation at Soka area of Ibadan, Oyo State, following intelligence reports on their alleged cyber-fraud activities.
Yahoo Boy Convicted in Kaduna
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The Kaduna Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC has secured the conviction of one Abel Joseph before Justice A.A Bello of the Kaduna State High Court on a one count amended charge bordering on Internet fraud.
The one count charge against the defendant reads: “That you, Abel Joseph (aka Nita Joel) sometime in June, 2022 in Kaduna within the Judicial Division of the High Court in an attempt to defraud, Impersonated one Nita Joel (a citizen of the United State of America) using your Infinix Smart5, when you knew you were not, and you thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 142(1) of the Kaduna State Penal Code Law, 2017 and punishable under the same law”.
N5m Car Scam Lands Abubakar in Prison
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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Kaduna Zonal Command, on July 21, 2022, secured the conviction and sentencing of one Salisu Sambo Abubakar before Justice Daruis Khobo of the kaduna State High Court, sitting in Kaduna on one count charge bordering on cheating.
The charge reads: “that you, Salisu Sambo Abubakar, sometime in 2016 at Kaduna within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court, did pretend to be a friend to the Managing Director of Nigerian Ports Authority, when you knew you were not and in such assumed character cheated one Dr. Anthony Friday Shamang of the sum of Two Million, Nine Hundred and Forty Thousand Naira(N2,940,000.00), when you claimed that you can assist him in procuring and delivering to him a Toyota Hilux van 2010 model and thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 320(a) of the Penal Code Law Cap 89 Laws of Northern Nigeria, 1963 and punishable under section 322 of the same Law”.
Man Convicted for N8m Land Scam in Kaduna
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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC has secured the conviction of one Abubakar Abdullahi before Justice A.A Bello of the Kaduna State High Court on a one count charge bordering on obtaining money by false pretence.
The defendant and one other allegedly induced one Salihu Ibrahim to pay the sum of N 8,000,000.00 for a plot of land at Mando, Kaduna but a search at the Kaduna State Geographic Information System (KADGIS) later revealed that the land does not belong to him. However, efforts by Ibrahim to recover his money failed.
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