Businessman bags 1 year imprisonment over N500, 000 fraud
NAN-H-36
Fraud
By Blessing Odega
Jos, July 31, 2017(NAN) A Jos Upper Area Court, on Monday sentenced, a businessman, Monday Bwai, to one year imprisonment for defrauding his colleague of N 500,000.
The Judge, Mr Yahaya Mohammed, sentence Bwai as he admitted committing the offence.
Mohammed, however, gave the convict an option to pay N 5, 000 fine.
Earlier, the Prosecutor, Sgt. Ibrahim Gowkat, told the court that the defendant committed the offence on Nov.29, 2016.
He said the complainant, one Mr Hagar Henry, a businessman and a resident of Tinna junction Jos, reported the matter at the Laranto Police Station.
Gowkat said the accused collected N500, 000 from the complainant that he would purchase some organic fertilizer, a promised he never fulfilled.
“After he collected the money, he started avoiding the complainant and refused to pick-up his calls, until he was arrested,’’ he said.
Gowkat said the offence contravened Section 322 of the Penal Code. (NAN)
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