A MultiChoice dealer in Ibadan has made fresh allegations against Seun Egbegbe, and claims that his celebrity ex, Toyin Aimakhu, paid to make the ugly scandal go away.
This comes after the movie producer was caught stealing nine iPhones at a shop in Computer Village, Ikeja, Lagos state, last month.
According to the dealer who identified himself simply as Semiu, Egbegbe reportedly committed a 3,000 fraud at his MultiChoice outlet in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital.
Daily Post reports that Semiu claimed to have met Egbegbe on December 9 at his outlet, two days after it was opened at Uncle Joe Bus Stop, Mokola area of the state.
Semiu reportedly told Sahara Reporters that the filmmaker walked into the outlet, asking to buy two GOtv Decoders, adding that a friend of his would be bringing the money for the payment.
Semiu said,
“Another man arrived wearing jellabiya, (the long robe favoured by Muslim men) and gave Egbegbe some money. After handing over the cash, the man in jellabiya left.
“Egbegbe stepped out of the shop and waited outside, where I was shielded from view by a glass door.
“Egbegbe, who kept impersonating a prospective customer then pointed to a man waiting downstairs, signaling that he was the one that would provide information required for the activation of the decoders. Though he was speaking, his voice was drowned out by music from the loud speakers hired to create awareness for the outlet.
“That was the beginning of trouble. When the Hausa man got upstairs, he told me that Egbegbe had taken $3,000 from him and I could not make any connection. I considered it a joke initially, but later realized that the second guy was a Hausa man, who had innocently transacted business with the pretended customer on the assumption that he owned the MultiChoice outlet.
”The Hausa man told me that Egbegbe had phoned him from a Fidelity Bank branch opposite the MultiChoice outlet, claiming to own that place and requesting to change naira to dollars.
Apparently, Egbegbe had failed to give the forex trader the naira equivalent of the money he took from him, with currency trader lured into a false sense of security that Egbegbe owned the dealership and could always find him there.
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