Justice Kudirat Jose of the Lagos High Court, Ikeja, on Friday, June 6, 2014, suspended further hearing in the $1.69million scam case involving suspected serial fraudster, Fred Ajudua, till September 24, 2014, to allow for the determination of the accused person’s appeal, challenging the court’s refusal of his bail application.Ajudua is asking the Court of Appeal, Lagos Division to upturn Justice Jose’s decision to refuse him bail. In the notice of appeal, he insisted that he needed urgent medical attention that would not be possible while in prison. He contended that the lower court was biased in not granting his…
Author: Kunle Edun
Justice Adeniyi Ademola of the Federal High Court, Abuja, on June 6, 2014, varied the terms of the bail earlier granted Aliyu Bello, a former Special Assistant to the Director of Administration (Pension Accounts) Office of the Head of the Civil Service of the Federation and Abdullahi Omeiza, a school teacher in Sokoto.The accused persons are being tried by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on a 5-count charge bordering on criminal conversion and obtaining over One Billion Naira (N1billion) from the Pension Account, Office of the Head of the Civil Service of the Federation, by false pretence.Justice Ademola…
Justice Dije Abdu Aboki of the Kano State High Court on June 5, 2014, convicted and sentenced Bright Evobai and Okechukwu Okolo to forty- three years imprisonment for offences bordering on obtaining by false pretence and forgery.They were arraigned by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on November 27, 2012, on an eight count charge. The convicts, former employees of Intercontinental Bank Plc (now Access Bank), conspired and defrauded the bank to the tune of N9, 700, 000 (Nine Million Seven Hundred Thousand Naira Only). They allegedly used stolen letterhead paper belonging to Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital Kano and…
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC Wednesday, June 4, 2014 arraigned the Finance Manager, Cetco Oilfields Services Limited, Akintunde Ajao alongside his company, YPSL Nigeria Limited, before Justice Lambo Akanbi of the Federal High Court, Port Harcourt on a 4-count charge bordering on conspiracy, forgery, and obtaining money by false pretence. Akintunde allegedly used his office as Finance Manager to prepare a false tax liability for Cetco Oilfields Services Limited to the tune of Seventy Four Million, Nine Hundred and Sixty Three Thousand, Seven Hundred and Twelve Naira, Eighty Kobo (N74, 963, 712: 80).Under the guise of acting on a…
A seven-day International Police Training, organized by the German Police for Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC and Department of State Services, DSS, ended on Wednesday, June 4, in Lagos. The training, entitled: Principles and Methods of Police Evaluation, was a capacity-building and international collaborative initiative, facilitated by the Consulate General of the Federal Republic of Germany. It held at the Conference Hall of the EFCC, Lagos. Thirty participants, comprising twenty from the EFCC and ten from the DSS, benefited from the programme. German Consul-General, Mr. Michael Derus, explained that the training was aimed at honing the skills…
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Wednesday, June 4, 2014 arraigned a suspected romance scammer: Omokoh Orowo Jesse before Justice R.B Akintola of the Oyo State High Court, Ibadan, on a 9-count charge bordering on conspiracy and obtaining money by false pretence. Specifically, Jesse allegedly fleeced an Australian lady, Jette Jacobs of the sum of $90,000 (Ninety Thousand United States Dollars) in a romance scam that went awry. He reportedly met Jesse in an online dating site and contrived a relationship with her. Reports showed that Jette travelled to Johannesburg, South Africa in November 2012. Jesse left Nigeria…
An FCT High Court presided over by Justice Olasumbo.O Goodluck today, June 4, 2014 ruled that it has jurisdiction to entertain the N1.4bn oil subsidy case involving the trio Helen Aninye, Chizobam Ben-Okafor and their company, Pon-Specialized Services Limited.The accused persons are being prosecuted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC on an eighteen count charge bordering on conspiracy, obtaining by false pretence and forgery.Aninye and Ben-Okafor allegedly conspired and fraudulently obtained the sum of one billion, four hundred and thirteen million, five hundred and seven thousand, nine hundred and fifty one naira, fifty kobo (N1, 413,507,951.50) from the…
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Tuesday, June 3, 2014, arraigned the duo of Ahmed Ali Mohammed and Nuhu Ibrahim Ishaq before Justice Ibrahim Christopher Auta of the Niger State High Court, Minna on a 6-count charge bordering on conspiracy, forgery and obtaining by false pretences. The suspects allegedly paraded themselves as directors of Sandabe International Company Limited and, in that assumed capacity, fraudulently obtained the sum of N140,000,000.00 (one hundred and forty million naira) from one Hon. Mohammed Umar Bago.Count two of the charge reads: “that you Ahmed Ali Mohammed, and Nuhu Ibrahim Ishaq, sometime between 1st…
The trial of former governor of Nasarawa State, Aliyu Akwe Doma and two others before Justice A. A Okeke of the Federal High Court, Lafia, Nasarawa State was today stalled as the defence sought adjournment pending the determination of its application for the transfer of the case to another judge. The ex-governor is being prosecuted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, alongside Timothy Anthony Anjide and Dauda Egwe on a 10-count charge bordering on money laundering. At the resumed hearing of the case June 2, 2014, the defence counsel, Charles Edosomwan, SAN who was represented by Olalekan Ojo,…
For attempting to obtain a sum of N2million from their victim in fake Globacom promo lottery, the duo of Egbearo Friday and Samson Akpaibor are to spend 7 years behind bars. The jail term was handed to the fraudsters on May 30 by Justice A. M Liman of the Federal High Court, Benin who found them guilty on all17-count charge that borders on obtaining by false, preferred against them by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission.Egbearo and Akpaibor were first arraigned on June 17, 2013 following their arrest in the wake of a complaint by one Dr. Christopher Onwubuemeli. He…