Businessman docked for alleged N2m fraud
NAN-H-41
Fraud
Abuja, Jan. 8, 2018(NAN) A 43-year-old businessman, Kamal Ajas, was on Monday arraigned in a Wuse Zone 2 Senior Magistrates’ Court, Abuja, for allegedly defrauding a man of N2million.
Ajas, of Apo Resettlement, Abuja, was arraigned on a two-count charge of criminal breach of trust and cheating.
The Prosecutor, Otu Urom, told the court that one Sule Musa, of Asokoro, wrote a petition to Area Command Maitama, Abuja on Nov. 28.
He said that the defendant collected N2million from the complainant with the pretext that he would help him secure a contract from the Ministry of Health.
The prosecutor said that the defendant failed to get the contract as they agreed, and the complainant demanded for refund of his money.
He said that the defendant issued N2million cheque to the complainant, but when the cheque was presented it bounced.
He said that during police investigation, N1.2million was recovered from the defendant.
The prosecutor said that the offences contravened Sections 312 and 322 of the Penal Code.
The defendant, however, pleaded not guilty to the charges preferred against him.
The Senior Magistrate, Musa Jobbo, granted bail to the defendant in the sum of N500,000 and a reliable surety inlike sum.
Jobbo also ordered that the surety must reside within the court’s jurisdiction and adjourned the case until Feb. 6, for hearing.(NAN)
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Edited by Obike Ukoh
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