The
Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on Wednesday November 11, 2015
arraigned One Mr. Peter Agha,
before Justice F.A Olubanjo of
the Federal High Court, Umuahia, Abia State on a two count charge of Fraud, Forgery,Stealing and Obtaining Money by false pretense to the tune of N4,000,000.00.
Agha, a banker with one of the new generation commercial banks was
alleged to have forged
the signature of one of the bank’s customers, closed the account
and transferred N4m to his personal account in another financial institution without
the customer’s consent.
One
of the counts read: “That you Peter Agha on or about January 2009, in Abia
State, within the jurisdiction of the Federal High Court of Nigeria with intent
to defraud obtained the sum of four million naira (N4,000,000.00) from Ogbonna
Nicodemus Okolo through Access Bank Account when you falsely represented to him
that the above amount will be invested in a Fixed Deposit Account with a
commitment to pay him interest, which pretence you knew to be false and you
thereby committed an offence contrary to section 1(1)(a) of Advance Fee Fraud
and Other Related Offences Act”.
The accused person however pleaded not guilty to the charges preferred
against him.
In
view of the accused person's plea,
the prosecuting counsel,
Chukwuma Eneh applied for a trial date. The defense counsel, Harison
O. Okakpuon however made an
oral bail application for his client.
The matter was adjourned to November
18, 2015 for hearing of bail application, and the accused person remanded in EFCC
custody.
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