EFCC ARRAIGNS HOTELIER, WOMAN OVER N53MILLION SCAM

He further added that, preliminary investigations have revealed that over N9.1million was paid to the second defendant,  Tinuola Idayat Oyegunle account domicile in one of the third generation banks apart from other funds traced to the first defendant, Ebiesuwa Abayomi Fredrick personal account from the victim.

One of the counts charge reads: “That you, Ebiesuwa Abayomi Fredrick, Tinuola Idayat Oyegunle  and (others still at large) between 28/3/2014 at Ibadan, within the jurisdiction of this Honorable Court, with intent to defraud did obtain by false pretence, the sum of Nine Million, Three Hundred and Fifty-Two Thousand, One Hundred Naira (9,352,100.00) only, from one Dunni Olateru-Olagbegi, under the pretense that the money was to be used to purchase instrument for the cleansing of United State of American Dollar notes, which pretence you knew to be false and thereby committed an offence contrary to section 1 (1) & (2) and punishable under section 1 (3) of the Advance Fee Fraud and other Fraud Related Offences Act, 2016’.

He said, it was also discovered that the first defendant has built a hotel located at Igbogbo, Ikorodu, Lagos State from the proceeds of the crime. He said the defendants however, pleaded not guilty to the charge preferred against them.

The prosecution counsel, Adeola Elumaro  in view of their plea, prosecution counsel  prayed the court for a trial date and urged the court to remand the defendants in prison custody, while prior to their plea, the defendants accepted to take their plea without a legal representative.

Justice Abdulmalik however, ordered that the defendants be remanded in the Federal Prison, Agodi and thereafter, directed the defendants to get a legal representative by the next adjournment or else the court will get one for them. The case is adjourned to 19th March, 2018 for trial