Two Businessmen Arraigned For N22m Fraud In Kaduna State

Two Businessmen Arraigned For N22m Fraud In Kaduna State

The Kaduna Zonal Office of EFCC on April 1, 2019 arraigned Abdulrazak
Abdulrahaman and Asala Richard before Justice Mohammed Tukur of the
state’s High Court sitting in Kaduna on a five-count charge bordering on
conspiracy and obtaining money by false pretence to the tune of
N22,618,000 (Twenty-Two Million Six Hundred and Eighteen Thousand
Naira).

The EFCC had received a petition from Global Green Services Limited
accusing them of defrauding the company. Abdulrazak allegedly forged the
company’s documents after conspiring with Richard, to open different
accounts with the said documents in the name of Global Green
Environmental Services Limited where money meant for the company were
diverted to.

One of the counts reads: “That you, Abdulrazak Abdulrahman, while
being in the employment of Global Green Environmental Services Limited
and Asala Richard while being in the employment of Aso Savings &
Loans Plc, between January and December 2014, within the jurisdiction of
this Honourable Court dishonestly converted to your own use, the
aggregate sum of N22,618,000 (Twenty-Two Million Six Hundred and
Eighteen Thousand Naira) only being money due to the Global Green
Environmental Services Limited and thereby committed an offence contrary
to Section 308 and Punishable under Section 309 ot the Penal Code Law.”

They pleaded not guilty to the charges. Prosecuting counsel, Aishatu
Ibrahim, thereafter, urged the court to fix a date for commencement of
trial, and for the defendants to be remanded in prison.

Defence counsel, Kayode Gbenga, however, moved the bail application of the second defendant.

While adjourning the case to May 8, 2019, Justice Tukur granted bail
to the second defendant in the sum of N5 million with one surety in like
sum who must be a reputable public servant or a businessman residing
within the Kaduna metropolis and must have money in his account to be
verified by EFCC. But the first defendant was ordered to be remanded in
prison.