Tuesday 20 June 2017

(Photo) Court Jails Man 27months for Job Scam,orders him to refund victim's money


Justice O. A. Adeniyi of the FCT High Court sitting in Apo, Abuja on Tuesday, June 20, 2017 convicted and sentenced one Micheal Ogun (a.k.a Idris Suleiman, Ibrahim Bello) to 27months imprisonment on a six-count charge of forgery and obtaining by false pretence brought against him by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC.

Ogun, allegedly poses as an officer of the Nigeria Customs Service, NCS and Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC, and in that assumed capacity defrauding innocent Nigerians of their hard earned money under the guise of securing them job in the two agencies.


The job scam was reported to the EFCC by one Angela Chinwe Okeke after being duped by the defendant.
In the course of the trial, Ogun changed his plea following a plea bargain agreement.

Justice Adeniyi, after a careful perusal of the plea bargain terms ruled out the option of fine holding that, “the plea bargain was an afterthought coming in at the dying minute after the prosecution has proved its case beyond every reasonable doubt”.
The judge, thereafter, found the defendant guilty and sentenced him to three months each on counts one to five without an option of fine and one year on count six.
Additionally, the convict is to refund the money fraudulently collected from all his clients

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