ADEOYE ADEWALE Faces Car Purchase Fraud Charges, As EFCC Investigates Haruna Over Undeclared Foreign Currencies

The Ibadan Zonal Directorate of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has arraigned one ADEOYE GABRIEL ADEWALE for alleged fraud to the tune of over Seven-Point-Seven Million Naira.

In the matter before Justice OLUSOLA ADETUJOYE of the Oyo State High Court, sitting in Ibadan, the EFCC alleged that ADEWALE committed the alleged crime through his company known as De Lukas Global Concept Limited.

The EFCC alleged that the defendant defrauded one ABDULRASAQ AWOTEDO by presenting himself as a car dealer and obtained the sum of Seven Million, Eight Hundred and Nineteen Thousand Naira from him for the purchase of two vehicles.

However, ADEWALE pleaded “not guilty” to the one-count charge preferred against him, following which Justice ADETUJOYE remanded him in the Agodi Correctional Centre and adjourned the matter for hearing of the bail application.

Meanwhile; the EFCC has commenced investigations into huge sums of undeclared foreign currencies seized from a traveler at the Mallam Aminu Kano International Airport in Kano.

The intercepted foreign currencies comprise of Seventy-Three Thousand US Dollars, Fifteen Thousand, Nine Hundred and Fifty-Seven Pounds, and Eight Hundred and Twenty-Seven Thousand, Eight Hundred Saudi Riyal.

The Kano Zonal Directorate of the EFCC received the seized foreign currencies, as well as one HARUNA YUSUF, who was transporting the money, from the Acting Customs Area Comptroller of the Kano-Jigawa Command.

EFCC’s Acting Zonal Director for Kano Directorate, FRIDAY EBELO, who received the suspect and the recovered funds on behalf of the Commission, expressed gratitude to the Nigeria Customs Service for its professionalism and cooperation.