The Economic and Financial Crimes
Commission, EFCC, on February 16, 2017, arraigned one Bashir Ishaq Bashir alongside his companies, Leda Greenpower Consortium,
Leda Greenpower Nigeria Limited and Leda Consortium Limited before Justice S.E.
Aladetoyinbo of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT High Court, Maitama, on a
three-count charge of obtaining by false pretence and cheating to the tune of
$1 million.
Bashir was alleged to have collected the
said sum as part payment of a $3 million agreement from Althani Investments
Company Limited for the purpose of forming a consortium to bid for shares at
the Kaduna Electricity Distribution Company. The bidding failed and several
attempts made by the company for a refund of the money proved abortive.
He pleaded "not guilty" to the
charges when they were read to him.
Prosecution
counsel, Rimamsomte Ezekiel, thereafter asked for a trial date.
Responding, counsel for the defendant, A.B.
Anachebe, SAN, moved the motion for his bail application.
Ezekiel opposed the application,
arguing that "the defendant if granted bail will interfere with
prosecution witnesses". He further argued that the application was not
proper in the sense that the defence only mentioned the name of the first
defendant without reference to the second, third and fourth
defendants.
Justice Aladetoyinbo, while adjourning to
April 10, 2017 for hearing granted him bail in the sum of N2 million and one surety in like
some. The surety must be resident in Abuja and must have a landed property.
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