Court jails man for fifteen years over N1million contract scam
The High Court of Kano State has ruled that a man, Jamilu Yunusa should spend fifteen years behind bar for contract scam by defrauding his victims of N1, 520, 000, and also ordered the convict to restitute the victims of all the sums in the charge or serve additional two years in imprisonment.
Penpushing reports that ,a statement by Head, Media and Publicity of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission(EFCC) Wilson Uwujaren said Yunusa was found guilty of all the seven counts preferred against him in 2016.
The statement said the Yinusa was arraigned by the commission in December 2016 on charges of conniving with two others to defraud the complainants of the sum of money, stressing that he perpetrated the fraud in connivance with Inuwa Abdu and Habibu Inuwa who are said to still at large, by claiming that he had a contract to supply pipes to Dantata and Sawoe Construction Company.
Penpushing further reports that, the agency said Yunusa, who was charged with and convicted of advance fee fraud, was said to have convinced his victims to help finance the contract with a promise to share the profit with them.
The prosecution who presented six witnesses and tendered 10 exhibits to prove the case against the convict said investigation revealed that the convict never had a contract with Dantata and Sawoe.
One of the charges reads, “that Jamilu Yunusa, Inuwa Abdu (at large) and Habibu Inuwa (at large) sometime in 2015 in Kano within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court conspired among yourselves to do an illegal act to wit: obtaining by false pretense the sum of N200,000 (Two Hundred Thousand Naira Only) from Nuhu Abubakar through Skye Bank account belonging to Inuwa Abdu with account number 3042263847 which was done pursuance to the said agreement and thereby committed an offense contrary to section (8) of the Advance Fee Fraud and Other Fraud Related Offences Act, 2006 and punishable under Section 1(3) of the same Act.”
Penpushing also reports that, the judge, Hadiza Suleiman while delivering judgment found Yunusa guilty as charged and convicted him on all the seven counts preferred against him in 2016.
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) said “the judge sentenced the convict to fifteen (15) years’ imprisonment, starting from the date of his arraignment in court. The convict was also ordered to restitute the victims of all the sums in the charge or serve additional two years in imprisonment’.
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