LASG staff faces trial over alleged fraud

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Paul Iyoghojie
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A senior staff with a Lagos State Ministry, Alausa, Ikeja, Lagos, Western Nigeria, Oluwakemi Amole, 47, has been charged before an Igbosere Magistrates’ court, Lagos for allegedly obtaining the sum of N6,669,500 under false pretence.

The money was allegedly obtained from Hilary Chimese, the Managing Director of HOCHIEZ Pharmaceutical Limited situated at 66, Palm Avenue, Mushin, Lagos.

The defendant, a resident of 41, Awe Street, Orile Coker, Lagos, was earlier arraigned before the court by the operatives of the Police Special Fraud Unit, Milverton Road, Ikoyi, Lagos on a three-count charge of felony to wit, obtaining money under false pretense and stealing.

The defendant pleaded not guilty to the crime in the open court and was admitted to bail in the sum of N500,000 with two sureties in like sum by the then magistrate Mrs. Oguntade.

The police prosecutor, Inspector Adoga Amedu, had informed the court in charge No. I/26/2014 that the defendant committed the offence sometime in 2009 at Ikeja,Lagos.

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Amedu told the court that the defendant obtained N6,669,500 from Hilary Chimese with a promise to secure a land for him at Lekki Scheme II and Oko Afo, Badagry mixed development scheme, a claim she knew to be false.

Amedu stated that the defendant failed to provide the land for the complainant and also failed to refund the money to him.

He said when all efforts by the complaint to retrieve his money from the defendant proved futile, he reported the matter to the police.

Amedu noted that the offences the defendant committed are punishable under sections 409, 312(3) and 285(1) of the criminal laws of Lagos State, 2011.

The presiding magistrate, Mr. Amos Olajuwon, adjourned the case till 26 October, 2015 for trial.

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