by Admin | Feb 1, 2017 | Blog |
Follow @NigeriaPI The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on Monday arraigned a 41-year-old banker in Abuja for allegedly forging the signatures of a bank customer with the intention to defraud him of over N30 million. Remilekun Momoh, an accountant with Unity Bank, Abuja, was arraigned before Justice Bello Kawu of the FCT High Court, Kubwa on a 15-count-charge, bordering on forgery and fraud. Momoh pleaded not guilty to the charges. The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the defendant had earlier been arraigned in November 2016 over alleged fraud of N14 million. The EFCC alleged that while at her duty post between May 2014 and May 2015, the defendant fraudulently forged the signatures of one Garba Mamu, who was a customer of Unity Bank. The defendant allegedly transferred, in bits, over N30 million through a forged letter of transfer of funds into several designated accounts in other banks. Counsel to the defendant, Lawrence Alabi, applied to the court for the defendant to continue on her initial bail terms. Justice Kawu, while granting the request after the prosecuting counsel did not object, adjourned the matter until March 15, for continuation of hearing. He also ordered that all the previous witnesses in the matter be recalled on the next adjourned...
by Admin | Feb 1, 2017 | Blog |
Follow @NigeriaPI Nigerian national and a Cambodian were arraigned before the Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Friday, January 27, for their involvement in a scheme to steal $300 from a Cambodian woman through a fake promotional contest. 37-year-old Uchechukwu Vincent and 27-year-old Sarim Kunthea had been charged with fraud after being sued by Keo Sotheary, 28, and arrested on September 8, 2016. “They were arrested by the police while coming to get $300 from the victim at a Wing transfer shop in Chom Chao commune,” Judge Ros Piseth said, adding that police had seized the money during the arrest. According to court documents, the pair called the woman and told her she won first prize in a promotional contest in September 2016. But Ms. Sotheary was told to send them $300 through Wing for “information and preparation for receiving the prize.” Ms. Sotheary became suspicious when she received several follow-up calls asking her to send the money. She filed a complaint with police, who subsequently set up a sting operation to arrest Mr. Vincent and Ms. Kunthea at a local Wing shop. The two alleged scam artists, who had been living in an apartment in Sansom Kosal 5 village in Phnom Penh’s Chamkarmon district, denied the charges and said they had never called or spoken to the victim. They claimed a Nigerian friend named Ichinobi told them to pick up the $300 from the Wing shop before they were arrested. “I did not know the victim. I have never called her or contacted her. I did not do anything as the court has accused and I would like them...
by Admin | Feb 1, 2017 | Blog |
Follow @NigeriaPI A 40-year-old man, Anyanime Festus, has been arrested by the Cross River State Police Command for allegedly feeding his 11-year-old twin daughters with poison over allegations of witchcraft. CrossRiverWatch reports that Festus poisoned his daughters in a community in Akampka Local Government Area of the state because he was told they were responsible for his parents’ death. It was gathered that the suspect had taken the children to a bush in the community and forced them to drink a black substance believed to be poison, which led to their death on January 10 and 11, 2017. A community source who spoke on the incident said: “The man told us that his daughters confessed to being witches and that he had no choice other than to kill them before they killed him. So, he mixed acid with malt, took the twins to a bush path and gave them the substance to drink.” Another resident of the area said the suspect had neglected the children even before he killed them. “The twins were always wandering the streets. When brought back home by strangers, Festus usually chased them out again without food. Sometimes they were locked up and not given food for days.” Investigations by the police also revealed that before the day he murdered the kids, the girls had been incarcerated for about three days before he let them out under the pretense of taking them to school, only for him to take them to the bush and kill them. The State Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), ASP Irene Ugbo, who confirmed the incident, said since the incident happened...
by Admin | Feb 1, 2017 | Blog |
Follow @NigeriaPI The Zone 5 Police Command has arraigned three female members of a suspected child trafficking gang at an Effuru Magistrates’ Court in Delta. The Zonal Police Public Relations Officer (ZPPRO), DPS Emeka Iheanacho, made the disclosure in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Tuesday in Benin. Iheanacho said the court had ordered that the suspects be remanded in prison. He gave the names of the suspects as Cynthia Ogbeide, 37; Chioma Douglas, 40, and Onome Paul 66. “They are being tried on allegations of abduction, exploitative labour and human trafficking of a minor and others.” “Their arrest and arraignment followed a petition by the minor, a 16-year old female, who allegedly escaped from her captives at Okere in Warri.’’ Iheanacho explained that the petitioner had allegedly met with Ogbeide, the leader of the gang, on social media–Face book. The spokesman said the duo became friends, prompting Ogbeide to invite the petitioner to Warri for a visit with a view to getting her a job. “The petitioner after spending few days without the hope of any job, told her host that she wanted to return to Benin.” “At which point the suspect threatened the petitioner that nobody will visit her and she will not leave the apartment.’’ Iheanacho said that the petitioner narrated how Ogbeide had similarly, brought several other women, whom she alleged were serially abused and exploited. “Acting on credible information that the suspects had perfected plans to sell her and others to unknown persons, the petitioner escaped and returned to Benin and petitioned the AIG, accusing the suspects of human trafficking...
by Admin | Jan 31, 2017 | Blog |
Follow @NigeriaPI Usman Nafada, a Bureau de Change operator, has connived with an accomplice to swindle one Mr Abdullahi Uba, of the sum of N1.7m at the Obalende area of Lagos during the course of changing some dollars to naira. It was reportedly gathered that Mr Uba had approached Usman in January 20th 2016, requesting to change some Naira to American dollars. The suspect was said to have informed Uba that he didn’t have any hard currency at that period for exchange but talked the victim into exchanging the money at a partner’s place to which he accepted and handed the money over to the suspect. Investigations into the matter revealed that the suspect returned with $100 which he gave to Mr Uba and when he discovered it was fake, he reported the alleged fraud at the Lion Building Police Division, and Nafada was arrested. According to uncomfirmed reports from a police source in lion’s building, he said, “About 30 minutes after, the complainant discovered that the notes were fakes. He ran back to Nafada, but he denied knowing about the fraud. He took the victim to where he changed the money, but his accomplice had disappeared. Effort is ongoing to apprehend him.” The suspect had been arraigned before an Igbosere Magistrate Court on Monday on a three-count charge bordering on stealing. The offence is punishable under sections 409, 312 (1) and 278 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2011. The charge read in part, “That you, Usman Nafada, and one other at large, on January 20th 2017, at about 11.30am, at Obalende, Lagos Island, in the Lagos...
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