The
Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Friday November 16, 2012,
arraigned the duo of Joko Agoro Bias and Tunde Oladunmoye Jamiu on a 4
count charge bordering on intent to defraud, forgery and uttering to the tune
of US $15, 340.00 (Fifteen Thousand Three Hundred and Forty United States
Dollars) before Justice Lateefa Okunnu of the Lagos High Court, Ikeja.
One
of the charges reads: “Joko Agoro Bais and Tunde Oladunmoye Jamiu between
February 2012 and March, 2012 at Lagos within the Ikeja judiciary Division
with intent to defraud, obtained the sum of $15, 340.00 (Fifteen thousand three
hundred and forty United States Dollars) from Mr. Shola
Olaseinde by falsely pretending to Mr. Shola Olaseinde that the money was the
Action Congress of Nigeria, (ACN) membership fee which pretence you knew to be
false”.
When
the charges were read to the accused persons, they pleaded not guilty.
Counsel
to the EFCC, Kayode Oni prayed the court to remanded the accused in
prison custody and fix a date for the commencement of trial. Counsel to the
accused persons said he had already filed an application for bail and
prayed the court to consider his application.
Justice
Okunnu has fixed 3 December, 2012 for hearing of the application; 5
and 6 February, 2013 for trial. She also ordered the accused persons to be
remanded in Kirikiri Maximum Prison.
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