EFCC Press Release
The
Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on October 30,
2014 arraigned one Abdulmujib Abdulkarim before Justice Faruk Lawal
of Kano State High Court on a 3- Count charge bordering on forgery, possession
of forged documents and obtaining N5, 750.000.00 ( five million seven
hundred and fifty thousand naira ) by false pretence
The accused sometime in September,
2013 allegedly sold a plot of land with Certificate of Occupancy
No. LKN/RES/2002/712 situated at No. 2786 Dorayi Babba Street, Kano
to one Sagir Bashir Nasambo through a hand written sales agreement dated 11
September, 2013 at the cost of N5,750.000.00 (five million seven
hundred and fifty thousand naira ).
After
making payments, the complainant discovered that the C of O presented to
him by the accused upon confirmation from the Ministry of Land and Physical
Development, Kano,
was forged.
Count one of the charge reads, “that
you, Alhaji Abdulmajid Abdulkarim sometime in September 2013, at Kano
within the jurisdiction of the High Court of Kano State, with intent to
defraud, falsely obtained the sum of N5,750.000 (five million seven
hundred and fifty thousand naira only) from Sagir Bashir Na Sambo
purporting to sell a property situated at No 2786 with Certificate of
Occupancy No LKN/RES/2002/712 situated at Dorayi
Babba, kano, which pretence you knew to be false and 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”.
Justice
Lawal adjourned the case to November 6, 2014 for hearing of bail
application and ordered the accused person to be remanded in EFCC custody.
Wilson Uwujaren
Head, Media &
Publicity
31st October,
2014
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