Alleged N201m fraud: Court opens trial of four Abuja company executives May 6

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The Financial and Monetary Crime Fee, EFCC, says the court docket has mounted a date for trial of 4 Abuja firm executives, allegedly concerned in a N201 million fraud.

EFCC stated Jstice Okay.N. Ogbonnaya of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Excessive Court docket Zuba mounted graduation of listening to on the matter on Might 6, 2024.

This was made recognized on its official X deal with on Wednesday.

In response to the company, the defendants, Harry Ositadinma Samuel, Ayodele Raymond, Gowon Usman Egbunu, Alhaji Nuhu Amanabo and Beligetto Holding Firm Restricted had been arraigned on February 29, 2024 on two-count fees bordering on acquiring by false pretense.

The anti-graft company stated the defendants are dealing with trial for acquiring 5 items of Sport Utility Car, SUV, Toyota merchandise valued at N201 million from a petitioner within the guise of delivering them to the Nigeria Correctional Service as a provide contract. They neither paid for the automobiles nor returned them to the petitioner.

EFCC stated the defendants had pleaded not responsible to the fees most well-liked in opposition to them, prompting the prosecution counsel, Khalid Sanusi, to request for a date of graduation of trial and remand of defendants at a correctional centre.

Justice Ogbonnaya launched the defendants on bail upon self-recognition and age, with strict orders to be in court docket on days of trial.

They signed a bond to this impact and within the occasion of noncompliance, the bond can be revoked, and all of the defendants can be held in a correctional facility until the tip of trial.

Additionally a N50 million bond was set for Beligetto Holding Firm Restricted.

The decide additionally ordered accelerated listening to of the matter and adjourned until Might 6, 7, 8 and 13, 14, 15 and 16, 2024.

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