The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on Friday, November 14, 2014 arraigned one Haililu Mohammed Jega, and his company, Suab Nigeria Limited before Justice O. A. Adeniyi of the Federal Capital Territory High Court, Apo, Abuja on one count charge bordering on fraud and obtaining by false pretence.
Jega is alleged to
have defrauded one Abuabakar Mohammed of N21, 150,000, under the pretence of selling his shop at
Wuse Market to him. The accused had hoodwinked Mohammed into paying the said
amount into his Unity Bank account before he could take ownership of the shop
which turned out to be false.
The accused pleaded
not guilty to the charge when it was read to him.
The charge reads:
“That you Halilu Mohammed Jega (M) being the managing director/chief executive
officer of Suab Nigeria Limited, and Suab Nigeria Limited, on or about the 16th
day of July 2013 in Abuja within the judicial Division of the High Court of the
Federal Capital Territory with intention to defraud, obtained the sum of
N21,150,000.00 (twenty one million, one hundred and fifty thousand naira) from
one Abubakar Mohammed under the false
pretence that you were going to sell your shop located at No 7, Block AZ Wuse
Market, Abuja to him, a shop you knew was pledged as collateral for a facility
you obtained from Unity Bank Plc, which has not been liquidated and you thereby
committed an offence contrary to Section 1 (1) (A) of the Advance Fee Fraud and
Other Related Offences Act, 2006 and punishable under
Section 1(3) of the same Act.”
Justice Adeniyi
granted bail to the accused in the sum of N10 million, a surety who must be
residing within the jurisdiction of the court.
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