The
Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on September 21, 2015 arraigned
one Amadi Jude before Justice Emmanuel Obile of the Federal High Court Calabar,
Cross River State on a 12-count charge bordering on obtaining money by false
pretence.
Amadi who goes by different
pseudo names – Richard Smith, Mike Anderson, Richard Darwin, Jackson Miller,
and Morgan Abela, is alleged to have collected N4,544,000 from a Swedish
national, and promised to marry her.
Count one reads: “That
you, Amadi Jude Junior (alias Richard smith, Mike Anderson, Richard Darwin,
Jackson Miller, Morgan Abela) ‘m’, John Ikechukwu Efughi (at
large), and Farouk (at large), between May 2014 and January 2015 in Calabar,
Cross River State, within the jurisdiction of this honourable court did
conspire among yourselves to commit felony with it: obtaining money by false
pretence and thereby committed an offence contrary to section 8 (a) of the
Advance Fee Fraud and Other Fraud Related Offences Act, 2006 and punishable
under section 1 (3) of the same act.”
The accused person pleaded
not guilty to all the charges.
Justice Obile, adjourned
till October 12, 2015 and ordered the accused person be remanded in prison
custody.
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