Fraudster bags four years for attempting to defraud a bank customer of N7 million

BY PROGRESS BENNETH//ENUGU

By the time you are reading this, B Yakub Asuni, has already begun his four-year jail term for “attempting to steal N7 million from a
bank customer's account.”

Justice I.B. Gafai of the Federal High Court Awka, Anambra State found him guilty of a four-count charge bordering on “attempted stealing”.
Asuni had on March 4, 2016 “attempted to induce Access Bank Plc to deliver/transfer the sum of N7 million from account No. 0046119649 in the name of Abdullahi Adamu to account No. 0020220860 belonging to Salisu Abubakar claiming that you are Abdullahi Adamu”.
An acclaimed car dealer bags two years in jail for a N1.01 million fraud t was an inevitable end for I Marcellinus Ezeoke whose two-year trial before Justice Lawal Wada of the Kano State High Court, Kano, came to a climax on June 1.
Ezeoke, who was first arraigned on November 25, 2015, had fraudulently obtained N1.01 million as payment for a Peugeot 406 car from a “customer”. He
had claimed to be a car dealer based in Cotonou, Republic of Benin.
Alas, he was just another fraudster. After collecting the money, he went underground, until the EFCC smoked him out of hiding, acting on his victim's petition.
“The prosecution has established the case against the convict beyond reasonable doubt,” said Justice Wada, and sentenced him to two years in prison, with an option of N50,000 as fine, and ordered to make restitution to his victim by refunding the money.
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