Crime
Man arraigned for N15.5m land fraud
The Kaduna Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Wednesday, June 8, 2022, arraigned one Abubakar Muhammad before Justice Darius Khobo of the Kaduna State High Court, Kaduna for obtaining by false pretence.
One of the counts reads: ” That you, Abubakar Muhammad, sometime in July, 2012, in Kaduna, within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court, with intent to defraud did obtain the sum of N15,500,000.00 (Fifteen Million, Five Hundred Thousand Naira) only from one Jibril Hassan Haramani for sale of three plots of land situated at Kurmin Mashi, Kaduna which you claim to be the rightful owner, a pretence you knew to be false and you thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 1(1)(a) of the Advance Fee Fraud and Other Fraud Related Offences Act, 2006 and punishable under Section 1 (3) of the same Act”.
The defendant pleaded not guilty to the charges.
Upon his plea, the prosecution counsel, Jamil Musa, urged the court to fix a date for trial and remand the defendant in Kaduna Correctional Centre.
The defence counsel, A.O. Ali did not object.
The case was adjourned to July 19, 2022 for commencement of trial, while the defendant was remanded in Kaduna Correctional Centre.
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