EFCC ARRAIGNS MAN FOR $500,000 FRAUD
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has dragged one NDUBISI KENECHUKWU UGONNA before Justice E. OKPE of the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory for alleged Five Hundred Thousand Dollars fraud.
EFCC arraigned UGONNA before the Court on a one-count charge of advance fee fraud and obtaining by false pretence to the tune of Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars.
The anti-graft agency alleged that UGONNA sometime in 2020 in Abuja, obtained the sum of Five Hundred Thousand Dollars from one KOFOWOROLA OLAGUNJU under the false pretence of investing in global security on his behalf, which turned out to be false and an offence under the Advance Fee Fraud and Other Fraud Related Offences Act, 2006.
However, the defendant pleaded “not guilty” to the charge, following which prosecution counsel JOSHUA SAIDI asked the court for a trial date and for the defendant to be remanded in a correctional centre.
Justice OKPE adjourned the matter till September 25, 2025, for the hearing of the bail application and ordered that the defendant be remanded in the Kuje Correctional Centre.