The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has arraigned a travel agent, Safiyanu Umar, at the Kano State High Court on a four count charge bordering on conspiracy and obtaining money by false pretence.
Umar
had defrauded Salisu Bkeke along with eight others to the tune of N3, 050,000
in the guise of helping them obtain visa, air ticket, transportation and
accommodation in Saudi
Arabia for the 2013 lesser Hajj.
Efforts
of the victim to either secure the documents or get a refund of his money were
futile, as the suspect became incommunicado.
One
of the charges read: “That you Alhaji Safiyanu Mohammed, sometime in June 2013,
within the jurisdiction of the High Court of Kano State, with intent to
defraud, falsely represented yourself that you are operating a Travel Agency
capable of obtaining visa and other travel documents, and obtained the sum
N700,000 (Seven Hundred Thousand Naira) through your account No. 1020105938
domiciled at a new generation bank from Hajiya Hadiza Mu’azu purporting to
secure a visa for travel to Saudi Arabia for Umrah, which pretence you
knew to be false and 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..”
The
accused however, pleaded not guilty to all the charges.
Justice
Auta adjourned the matter till May 21, 2015 for trial, and ordered that the
accused person be remanded in prison custody.
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