The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on Monday arraigned a suspected fraudster, Bisi Olagunju, before Justice Munta Abimbola of the Oyo State High Court sitting in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital, for collecting N9m from a contractor under false pretences.
Olagunju was said to have claimed to be a special adviser to an Urban and Rural Development Committee chairman in the House of Representatives.
She was arrested after a petition written by Abiodun Julius who paid the sum to her in the hope that she would facilitate the contract for the supply of computers to the House and secure a job for his brother at the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps.
The charge read, “That you, Bisi Lillian Olagunju, sometime in November 2015 at Ibadan within the Ibadan Judicial Division with intent to defraud obtained the sum of N5m from one Abiodun Julius under the false pretences that the money form part of the payment to secure a contract for the supply of computers to the National Assembly of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and which you knew was false.”
The accused person however pleaded not guilty to the three counts preferred against her by the EFCC.
She was granted bail by Justice Abimbola in the sum of N10m and two sureties in like sum.
The bail condition stated that the sureties must be residents within the jurisdiction where the financial crime was committed and must have sufficient evidence of ownership of properties to be verified by the EFCC.
The judge further ruled that the accused person must deposit her passport with the court registrar while hearing was fixed for June 13 and 14, 2016.
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