The Economic and Financial Crimes
Commission, EFCC, on Tuesday, May 2, 2017 arraigned the duo of Ajani Isaac
Adedotun, (a.k.a. Clara Williams and Lara Williams) and Adesina Segun Adedeji
before Justice A.D. Oladimeji of the Osun State High Court sitting in Ede, on a
50-count charge bordering on conspiracy and obtaining money by false pretence.
The petitioner alleged that the
victim, M. Wassink, a
Dutch citizen, was defrauded of over €88,000 in an Internet romance scam.
One of the counts reads: "Ajani
Isaac Adedotun (a.k.a Clara Williams, Lara Williams) and Adesina Segun Adedeji,
on or about the 5th day of March, 2014 at Ile Ife, within the jurisdiction of
this honourable court, with intent to defraud, obtained the sum of €23,000
(Twenty-three Thousand Euro) through Adesina Segun Adedeji's Skye Bank account
from M. Wassink, under the false pretence that you are a female from Belgium
and had travelled to Nigeria to buy some gemstones and bracelets and that the
said sum of money represented fees for the officials securing the gemstones for
you, which representation you knew to be false."
The accused persons, however, pleaded not
guilty to the charges when they were read to them.
In view of their pleas, the
prosecuting counsel, Vera Agboje, asked the court for a trial date and prayed
the court to remand the accused in prison custody.
However, counsel to the accused
persons, Sanyaolu S. Akinyele and T. S. Adegboyega, respectively prayed the
court to grant their clients bail.
Justice Oladimeji adjourned the case
to May 16, 2017 for hearing of the bail applications and ordered the accused to
be remanded in Ilesa prison custody.
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