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Justice Dije
Abdu Aboki of a Kano State High Court has sentenced a Bureau de change
operator, Muktar Yusuf Gwadabe, who was prosecuted by the Economic and
Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, to two and half years imprisonment with an
option of N250, 000.00 fine. He was convicted for fraud, criminal breach of
trust and issuance of a dishonoured cheque amounting to N76m.
The Judge
further made an order for restitution of the sum of N76, 000, 000 by the
convict to the complainant, Alhaji Nura Ammani and in default, to serve a
prison term of five years.
Gwadabe was
arrested in February 2009 by the operatives of the EFCC following a petition
from Alhaji Ammani who allegedly gave him (Gwadabe) the sum of N152, 000,000 for the supply of one million
US dollars ($1,000, 000.00).
The convict
then supplied five hundred thousand US dollars ($500,000.00), (equivalent of
N76million), but allegedly misappropriated and converted to his personal use,
the balance of $500,000.00 or the naira equivalent (N76 million).
The accused
subsequently issued a cheque of N76 million to the complainant which when
presented for payment was returned unpaid because of insufficient fund in the
accused person’s account. Consequently, he was charged for criminal breach of
trust and issuance of a dishonoured cheque.
Count one of
the charge that sent Gwadabe to jail reads: “that you Muktar Yusuf Gwadabe (being a bureau de change operator),
on or about February 2009, in Kano within the judicial division of the High
Court of Justice of Kano State in that capacity was entrusted with certain
property , to wit: seventy six million
naira (N76,000, 000), which you converted to your use and thereby committed
criminal breach of trust: an offence punishable under section 312 of the Penal Code Laws of Kano State”.
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