By Felix Kuyinu
The Federal Criminal Investigation Department, Alagbon in Ikoyi Lagos is prosecuting a businessman over accusations of a fraudulent oil deal.
The police department filed a two-count charge of obtaining money by false pretenses and theft against the accused , Ebi Ogionwo, at the Federal High Court in Ikeja.
At the court, Ogionwo was said to have fraudulently obtained the sum from the complainant, Oluwatosin Adefila, of Beltzemo Nigeria Limited under the guise of financing an oil trading business – which proved to be false.
The two count charges against Ogionwo in violation of Section 1 (1) (c) and punishable under Section 1 (3) of the Advance Fee Fraud and Other Related Offences Act 2006 goes thus, “That you, Ebi Otsaye Ogionwo “M” sometimes in 2022,in Lagos, within the Judicial Division of this Honorable Court, did by false pretence and with intent to defraud obtained the sum of Three Hundred Thousand Dollars (S300,000:00) from one Mr. Oluwatosin Adefila of Boltzemo Nigeria Limited under the guise of using the said funds for financing Oil Trading Business, a representation you knew to be false and thereby committed an offer contrary to Section 1(1)(c) and punishable under section 1(3) of the Advance Fec,raud and other Related Offences Act 2006, Laws of the Federation of Nigeria.
The second charge states, “That you Ebi Otsaye Ogionwo “M” on the same date, time and place, and in the aforementioned Judicial Division of the Federal High Court, did steal the sum of Three Hundred Thousand Dollars ($300,000.00) from one Mr.Oluwatosin Adefila of Nigeria Limited and thereby committed an offence contrary to section 383 and punishable under section 390 (9) of the Criminal Code Act,Cap C 38,Laws of the Federation of Nigeria,2004.
A new date for trial has been scheduled to be on 14th, October.
