N4.9m Bet: Man Jailed For Providing Anti-graft Agency with False Petition
Afimag.com –
The Kaduna State High Court sitting, Kaduna, has sentenced one Dodo Ayuba Ahmadu to two years imprisonment on one count charge for misleading the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).
Ahmadi, after transferring N4.9 million from a bet account, assisted one Oluwayemisi Samuel, to forwarded a petition to the commission with a false claim that the said amount of money was stolen.
The defendant pleaded guilty to the charge when it was read to him.
Justice Darius Khobo, in his ruling on May 26, 2023, convicted and sentenced the defendant to two years imprisonment with an option of N150, 000.00 fine.
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According to EFCC, the convict ran into trouble when the Commission received a petition on March 07, 2023 by one Oluwayemisi Samuel against an unknown individual, alleging that the person fraudulently transferred the cumulative sum of N4,600,000 and N1,000,000.00 from her account and that of her son Samuel Joshua using stolen phones.
Under investigation, it was discovered that the eldest son of the petitioner named Hezekiah Samuel transferred the cumulative sum of N4, 900,000 into a betting wallet but lost the money.
The complainant and the defendant then decided to conspire between themselves to make false allegations, saying that the money was stolen from their purportedly stolen phones to mislead the Commission.