A
41-year-old bureau de change operator, Oluwasegun Ajayi, who allegedly obtained
N22.6m under false pretences, was on Friday granted N5m bail by a Yaba Chief
Magistrates’ Court, Lagos.
The Chief
Magistrate, Mrs. A. F. Adeeyo, who gave the ruling, said the accused should
produce two sureties in like sum, with one of them being a blood relation who
must not be self-employed.
Ajayi, whose
address is unknown, had pleaded “not guilty” to a three counts of obtaining by
false pretence, forgery and stealing.
Earlier, the
prosecutor, Sgt. Ibijoke Akinpelu, told the court that the accused defrauded
two persons of the sum of N22.6m on the pretext of converting the amount to
U.S. dollars.
Akinpelu
said Ajayi fraudulently obtained the sum of N4.1m from one Seindemi Olabayo and
another N18.5m from one Oluwafemi Oladehinde, assuring them that the money
would be converted to American dollars.
She said the
accused also backed up his “fraudulent act by forging an FCMB bank’s statement
of account.”
Akinpelu
said the offences contravened sections 287, 315 and 365 of the Criminal Law of
Lagos State, 2011.
The case was
adjourned till April 6, 2017 for mention.
(NAN)
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