EFCC Docks Lawyer And 9Mobile Staff For N24.9m Fraud In Lagos

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EFCC Docks Lawyer And 9Mobile Staff For N24.9m Fraud In Lagos

The Lagos Zonal Office of EFCC on Friday, March 29, 2019, arraigned
two suspected fraudsters, Feranmi Isaiah Akinluyi and Sogo Akinola,
a.k.a Obaje, before Justice Mojisola Dada of the Special Offences Court,
sitting in Ikeja on a five-count charge, bordering on obtaining money
by false pretence and stealing to the tune of N24, 980, 000 (Twenty-Four
Million, Nine Hundred and Eighty Thousand Naira).

The first defendant, Akinluyi, a lawyer, and the second defendant,
Akinola, also a lawyer and an employee of 9Mobile (formerly Etisalat
Nigeria), allegedly swindled a number of unsuspecting victims by
claiming to be into property business.

One of the charges reads: “That you, Feranmi Isaiah Akinluyi and Sogo
Akinola (alias Obaje), on or about the 24th June, 2016 in Lagos, within
the Ikeja Judicial Division, with intent to defraud, induced Kelechi
Okani Darlington to transfer the sum of N9,000,000 (Nine Million Naira)
only into your Diamond Bank Account No. 0042435535, on the understanding
that the said amount was to purchase a property known and situated on
Plot 3, Block 1, Lekki County, Ikota Village, Lagos, which pretext you
knew to be false.”

The defendants pleaded not guilty to all the charges. In view of
their no guilty plea, the prosecution counsel, Ahmed Yerima, asked for a
trial date and urged the court to remand them in prison custody.

Counsel to the defendants, Olugbenga Akinlabi, informed the court
that the charge was served on the defendants just this morning in the
court premises and that the defendants are standing trial before Justice
Oluwatoyin Taiwo of the Special Offences Court, sitting in Ikeja for a
similar offence for which they are presently on bail.

The defence counsel, therefore, prayed for a short adjournment to
enable him file and serve the prosecution with the bail applications on
behalf of his clients. Justice Dada granted the defendants bail and
adjourned the case to May 6, 2019 for hearing of the bail applications
and commencement of trial.

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