EFCC Press Release
The Economic and Financial Crimes
Commission (EFCC) today October 2, 2014 arraigned the duo of Alhaji Abdul Ahmadu
and Bello Isa before Justice Farouq Lawal of the Kano State High Court on a
3-count charge bordering on criminal breach of trust and obtaining money by
false pretence.
The accused persons allegedly induced one
Alhaji Mohammed Sani Utai to part with the sum of N6, 100,000 (Six Million One
Hundred Thousand Naira Only) under the pretext that they were going to sell a
Mercedes Benz GLK car to him. After obtaining the money in various tranches, the
car was neither delivered nor was his money returned.
One of the charge reads, “that you Alhaji
Abdu Ahmadu and Bello Isa sometime in 2012, at Kano within the jurisdiction of
the High Court of Kano State with intent to defraud obtained the sum of N2,
600, 000 (Two Million Six Hundred Thousand Naira only) from Mohammed Sani Utai by
falsely representing that you had a Mercedes Benz GLK for sale and that you
were capable of securing delivery of the said Mercedes Benz car to him, which
pretence you knew to be false and you thereby committed an offence contrary to
section 1(1)(a) of the Advance Fee Fraud and Other Fraud Related Offences Act,
2006 and punishable under section 1(3) of the same Act”.
The accused persons pleaded not guilty
when the charge was read to them.
Justice Lawal adjourned the case to
October 13, 2014 for hearing of bail application and commencement of trial.
Wilson
Uwujaren
Head, Media & Publicity
2nd October, 2014
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