EFCC Arraigns Man for Fraud
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Makurdi Zonal office, on March 25, 2020, arraigned one Ishaya John Moses, on a one – count charge for allegedly Obtaining Money by False Pretence, Conspiracy and retention of proceed of crime. Ishaya was arraigned before Justice Mobolaji Olajuwon sitting at the Federal High Court Makurdi, Benue State.
The one count reads: “That you, Ishaya John Moses sometime in November, 2019 at Makurdi, in the Makurdi Judicial Division of this honourable Court did by concealment retain the control of the sum of N200, 000 (Two Hundred Thousand Naira) only, in your UBA Account No. 2135982316, being the proceed of a criminal conduct on behalf of one Oke knowing that the money is got as a result of criminal conduct by the said Oke and thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 17(a) of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (Establishment) Act, 2004 and punishable under Section 17(b) of the same Act".
The defendant, however, pleaded ‘not guilty’ when the charge was read to him.
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Source: EFCC News
