Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on
Thursday arraigned a convicted lawyer, Kole Bello, and an alleged accomplice,
Muhydyn Ango, for fraudulently obtaining a N25m loan facility from Access Bank
Plc with forged documents.
Bello is currently serving a 10-year jail term
for fraud-related offences.
He was sentenced on February 10, 2011 by another
judge of a Lagos High Court, Ikeja, Justice Joseph Oyewole.
The convicted lawyer and Ango pleaded not guilty
to the five counts preferred against them by the EFCC at a Lagos State High
Court in Ikeja presided over by Justice Lateefat Okunnu.
They allegedly forged a certificate of occupancy
No. 15/15/1999J of a property purportedly located in Lekki Pennisula
Residential Scheme 1 known as Plot 1,Block 103, Eti Osa area of Lagos State,
which they presented to the bank to facilitate the loan.
Apart from obtaining money by false pretences,
they also face other counts of conspiracy, forgery and uttering, all of which
they were alleged to have committed in 2008 in Lagos.
EFCC’s prosecuting counsel, Mr. Kayode Oni,
alleged that the defendants committed the offence some time in 2008 in Lagos.
The alleged offences were said to have contravened
Sections 1(3) and 8(a) of the Advance Fee Fraud and Other Fraud Related
Offences Act No. 14 of 2006 and Sections 467 and 468 of the Criminal Code Laws
of Lagos State 2003.
Okunnu adjourned the matter till January 28, 2013
for trial.
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