Alhaji Hashim who is the owner of Amjigar Bureau de Change Limited alongside one Ahmed Bashir allegedly defrauded a group of 52 bureaux de change operating under the aegis of Association of Creditors of Amjigar Bureau de Change, of the sum of $18,600,290 (Eighteen Million, Six Hundred Thousand, Two Hundred and Ninety Dollars) between August and October 2008.
The suspect is alleged to have collected the money and diverted it for his personal use thereby failing to honour his financial obligation to the group.
The suspect who was first arrested by the EFCC was granted administrative bail prior to his arraignment in court but jumped bail, thereby stalling his prosecution. But his accomplice, Ahmed Bashir is currently standing trial at the Federal High Court, Kaduna.
The EFCC said Alhaji Hashim will soon be arraigned in court.
Also, the EFCC Friday arraigned the duo of Muhammed Abubakar Alfa and Franklin Uche before Justice Dije Aboki of Kano High Court on a 39-count charge bordering on conspiracy, possession of fake document and obtaining by false pretence.
The accused persons allegedly defrauded one Ambassador Abdullah Musa, a Libyan, of the sum of N13, 000,000.00 (thirteen million Naira).
The duo were said to have met their victim through one of his Nigerian business associates, a certain Muktar Ahmed, and sold to him, via telephone, a proposal to supply him crude oil from Nigeria.
The unsuspecting Ambassador received an invitation letter to come to Nigeria to close the deal.
During the visit, the accused persons allegedly presented the victim with documents sourced from relevant agencies. Impressed, Musa invited the 1st accused (Muhammed Alfa) to his base in Tunisia, where another round of meeting was held. Consequently, the deal was sealed. Thereafter, the sum of N13, 000,000.00 (thirteen million Naira) was paid into Muhammed Abubakar Alfa’s account domiciled in one of the old generation banks in Nigeria.
After waiting for months without receiving any crude oil from the accused persons, it became obvious that he had been duped.
One of the counts in the charge reads, “That you Muhammed Abubakar Alfa and Franklin Uche on or about 5th day of November, 2012 in Kano within the judicial Division of the High Court of Justice of Kano State with intent to defraud did invite Abdullah Musa Hamd Bashir to visit Nigeria for the purpose of alleged crude oil business which resulted into obtaining the sum of N13,000,000.00 ( thirteen million Naira) under false pretence from him through his agent one Muktar Ahmed Muhammed and thereby committed an offence contrary to and punishable under Section 4 of the Advance Fee Fraud and Other Fraud Related Offences Act, 2006″.
The accused persons pleaded not guilty when the charges were read to them. Attempt by counsel to the 2nd accused, John Nwoke to present an oral bail application for his client was refused by the trial judge, who remanded the accused persons in prison custody.
In another matter, the EFCC on Thursday arraigned the duo of Alhaji Suraj A.S Mai Bargo and Alhaji Tijjani Iliyasu Hudu alongside S.A.S General Enterprises Nigeria Limited before Justice Faruk Lawal of Kano State High Court on a 2-count charge bordering on conspiracy and obtaining by false pretence.
The first accused, Mai Bargo, who is an agent to the second accused, Iliyasu Hudu sometime in May 2012, allegedly sold a plot of land to one Umar Ahmed Gwale at Gaida Farm in Kano for the sum of one million naira only (N1, 000,000) and issued a receipt of S.A.S General Enterprises Nigeria Limited, with a promise to deliver the Certificate of Occupancy to him within two weeks. The two weeks lapsed and the document was never delivered to Gwale. Instead, he was told that the land belongs to one Alhaji Tijjani Iliyasu Hudu (2nd accused) who claimed that he never authorized Mai Bargo to sell the land.
Count two of the charge reads “That you Alhaji Suraj Mai Bargo, Alhaji Tijjani Iliyasu Hudu and S.A.S General Enterprises Nigeria Limited on or about 28th May, 2012 in Kano within the judicial division of the High Court of Justice of keno state, with intent to defraud cheated Umar Ahmed Gwale by deceiving him to part with the sum of one million naira only (N1,000,000) under the pretence that you had a land with good title which you knew to be false and thereby committed an offence contrary to section 320 and punishable under section 322 of the Penal Code.”
The accused persons pleaded not guilty to the charges and were granted bail by Justice Lawan in the sum of N1m each and one reliable surety who must be a civil servant of level 14 and above.
The case was adjourned to case to December 16, 2014 for commencement of trial.
Source: THEWILL
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