The
Economic and financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on March 25 ,2015
arraigned one Dickson Simon Obasi and Frank Emmanuel Orngu before
Justice Binta Murtala Nyako of the Federal High Court sitting in Makurdi
on a 3-count charge bordering on money laundering offences.
According to the EFCC spokesman, Wilson Uwujaren, Dickson and Frank were arrested following a complaint from one Fatima Justina Agada and Samuel Abuwal that the duo conspired and fraudulently swapped their “Automated Teller Machine”, ATM cards, in one of the old generation banks which they used to swindle them of several thousands of naira.
One of the Counts reads: “That you, Dickson Simon Obasi and Frank Emmanuel Orngu, sometime in September 2014 in Makurdi within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court agreed amongst yourselves to do an illegal act to wit: money laundering and thereby committed an offence contray to S.18(a) of the Money Laundering (Prohibition) Act 2011 and punishable under Section 15 of the same Act”.
The accused pleaded not guilty when the charges were read to them. In view of their pleas, counsel to EFCC, Msuur Denga prayed the court to fix a date for trial to commence. However, A. Abdulkarim and S. O Okpale representing the first and second accused through a formal application pleaded for the bail of the accused persons
According to the EFCC spokesman, Wilson Uwujaren, Dickson and Frank were arrested following a complaint from one Fatima Justina Agada and Samuel Abuwal that the duo conspired and fraudulently swapped their “Automated Teller Machine”, ATM cards, in one of the old generation banks which they used to swindle them of several thousands of naira.
One of the Counts reads: “That you, Dickson Simon Obasi and Frank Emmanuel Orngu, sometime in September 2014 in Makurdi within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court agreed amongst yourselves to do an illegal act to wit: money laundering and thereby committed an offence contray to S.18(a) of the Money Laundering (Prohibition) Act 2011 and punishable under Section 15 of the same Act”.
The accused pleaded not guilty when the charges were read to them. In view of their pleas, counsel to EFCC, Msuur Denga prayed the court to fix a date for trial to commence. However, A. Abdulkarim and S. O Okpale representing the first and second accused through a formal application pleaded for the bail of the accused persons
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