The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC Kaduna Zonal Office on April 1, 2019 arraigned Abdulrazak Abdulrahaman and Asala Richard before Justice Mohammed Tukur of the state\u2019s High Court sitting in Kaduna on a five-count charge bordering on conspiracy and obtaining money by false pretence to the tune of N22,618,000 (Twenty-Two Million Six Hundred and Eighteen Thousand Naira).
\nAn EFCC statement said the commission had received a petition from Global Green Services Limited accusing them of defrauding the company. Abdulrazak allegedly forged the company’s documents after conspiring with Richard, to open different accounts with the said documents in the name of Global Green Environmental Services Limited where money meant for the company were diverted to.
\nOne of the counts reads: \u201cThat you, Abdulrazak Abdulrahman, while being in the employment of Global Green Environmental Services Limited and Asala Richard while being in the employment of Aso Savings & Loans Plc, between January and December 2014, within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court dishonestly converted to your own use, the aggregate sum of N22,618,000 (Twenty-Two Million Six Hundred and Eighteen Thousand Naira) only being money due to the Global Green Environmental Services Limited and thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 308 and Punishable under Section 309 ot the Penal Code Law.\u201d
\nThey pleaded \u201cnot guilty\u201d to the charges.
\nProsecuting counsel, Aishatu Ibrahim, thereafter, urged the court to fix a date for commencement of trial, and for the defendants to be remanded in prison.
\nDefence counsel, Kayode Gbenga, however, moved the bail application of the second defendant.
\nWhile adjourning the case to May 8, 2019, Justice Tukur granted bail to the second defendant in the sum of N5 million with one surety in like sum who must be a reputable public servant or a businessman residing within the Kaduna metropolis and must have money in his account to be verified by EFCC. But the first defendant was ordered to be remanded in prison.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC Kaduna Zonal Office on April 1, 2019 arraigned Abdulrazak Abdulrahaman and Asala Richard before Justice Mohammed Tukur of the state\u2019s High Court sitting in Kaduna on a five-count charge bordering on conspiracy and obtaining money by false pretence to the tune of N22,618,000 (Twenty-Two Million Six Hundred and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":10954,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16524\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}