The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission,
EFCC, has arraigned Adedokun Tajudeen Oladipupo before Justice S. S Ogunsanya
of the Lagos High Court sitting in Ikeja on one count charge bordering on
obtaining money by false pretences.
Oladipupo was alleged to have contacted a firm, J.P Solutions & Investment Limited, through his company, Del Waste Management Limited, with an offer to sell foreign exchange worth $150,000( One Hundred and Fifty Thousand United States Dollars) to it, for a naira equivalent of N23,550,000.00( Twenty-Three Million, Five Hundred and Fifty Thousand Naira only).
Oladipupo was alleged to have contacted a firm, J.P Solutions & Investment Limited, through his company, Del Waste Management Limited, with an offer to sell foreign exchange worth $150,000( One Hundred and Fifty Thousand United States Dollars) to it, for a naira equivalent of N23,550,000.00( Twenty-Three Million, Five Hundred and Fifty Thousand Naira only).
The firm reportedly gave him the money but
Oladipupo neither provided the foreign exchange, nor return the naira
equivalent collected from the firm.
The charge read: “that you Adetokunbo Tajudeen
Oladipupo on or about the 10th day of October, 2013, at Lagos, within the Ikeja
Judicial Division of this honourable Court, with intent to defraud obtained the
sum of N23,550,000.00 (Twenty Three Million And Five Hundred And Fifty Thousand
Naira) only, from J.P Solutions and Investments Limited, being payment of the
Naira equivalent of the sum of $150,000.00 (One Hundred and Fifty Thousand
United States of America Dollars) you purposed to have secured for him”
When the charge was read to him, he pleaded not
guilty.
Justice Ogunsanya fixed July 14 and 16,
2014 for hearing of bail application and ordered the accused person to be
remanded in Kirikiri Maximum Prison, Lagos.
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