EFCC Arraigns Maiduguri Businessman Over N99million Fraud
AREWA AGENDA – The Maiduguri Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC on Thursday arraigned a Maiduguri based Businessman over N99 million fraud
The accused who bear the name of Kyari Mohammed was arraigned before Justice Aisha Kumaliya of Borno State High Court, on two-count charges, bordering on criminal conspiracy and obtaining by false pretence to the tune of N99,750,000.00 (Ninety Nine Million, Seven Hundred and Fifty Thousand Naira).
He was arraigned, alongside his company, Kyari and Sons Company Nigeria Limited.
EFCC revealed that Mohammed allegedly defrauded his victim, Alhaji Abubakar Moforo by collecting food items valued at N99, 750,000.00 under the guise of supplying the items to a Non- Governmental Organization with a promise to pay the money within forty-five days.
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Count one reads: ”That you Kyari Mohammed being a Managing Director of Kyari and Sons Company Nigeria Limited and alter ego of Kyari and Sons Company Nigeria Limited, a company registered in Nigeria, sometimes March, 2018 at Maiduguri, Borno State within the jurisdiction of this Honorable Court, did conspire among yourselves to obtained the gross sum of N99,750,000.00 (Ninety Nine Million, Seven Hundred and Fifty Thousand Naira) only, which you knew to be false and thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 8(a) of the Advance Fee Fraud and other Fraud Related Offences and Punishable under the same Act.”
The defendant pleaded ‘not guilty’ to the charge preferred against him by EFCC.
EFCC counsel, Mukhtar Ali Ahmed, prayed to the court for a trial date and urged the court to remand the defendant in prison custody.
Justice Kumaliya thereafter adjourned the matter till October 26, 2022 for hearing and remanded the defendant at Maiduguri Correctional Centre.
Mohammed was first arraigned on Monday, June 21, 2021 before Justice Umaru Fadawu of the Borno State High Court, Maiduguri on the same charge.
He pleaded “not guilty” to the charges thereby leading to a full trial. Ahmed, in the course of the trial, presented several witnesses through whom documents were tendered and admitted as exhibits by the court.
After the EFCC had closed its case, Mohammed, through his counsel, B.G Mohammed opted for a “no case submission”, which was dismissed by Justice Fadawu.
Subsequently, Justice Fadawu returned the file to the Chief Judge of Borno State for re-assignment, owing to an existing relationship between the judge and Mohammed’s brother, hence the re-assigning of the case to Justice Kumaliya.
Source: EFCC official website
