{"id":1824390,"date":"2023-04-04T14:30:24","date_gmt":"2023-04-04T13:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/advocate.ng\/?p=1824390"},"modified":"2023-04-04T14:30:24","modified_gmt":"2023-04-04T13:30:24","slug":"man-38-arraigned-for-alleged-n4-8m-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/advocate.ng\/man-38-arraigned-for-alleged-n4-8m-fraud\/","title":{"rendered":"Man, 38, arraigned for alleged N4.8m fraud"},"content":{"rendered":"
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By Itohan Abara-Laserian<\/p>\n

An Ikeja Magistrates\u2019 Court has arraigned a 38-year-old man, Idowu Babatunde, for allegedly obtaining the sum of N4.8 million under false pretences.<\/p>\n

Babatunde, whose address was not provided, is facing a three-count charge of conspiracy, fraud and dishonesty.<\/p>\n

He, however, pleaded not guilty to the charges.<\/p>\n

The Prosecutor, Insp. Olusegun Kokoye, told the court that the defendant committed the offences with others still at large between June and July 2022 in Lagos.<\/p>\n

Kokoye said that the defendant dishonestly obtained N4.8 million from one Banjo Olufemi under the pretence to purchase a Toyota Highlander vehicle, which he never did.<\/p>\n

The prosecutor said that the defendant later converted the said amount for his personal use.<\/p>\n

Kokoye said that the offences contravened Sections 411, 314 (3) and 287 (1)(a)(b) of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2015.<\/p>\n

The presiding Magistrate, Mrs Sakirat Obasa, granted the defendant bail in the sum of N500,000 with two responsible sureties in like sum.<\/p>\n

Obasa ordered that the sureties should show evidence of two years tax payment to the Lagos State Government.<\/p>\n

She adjourned the case until May 9 for mention.<\/p>\n

(NAN)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Itohan Abara-Laserian An Ikeja Magistrates\u2019 Court has arraigned a 38-year-old man, Idowu Babatunde, for allegedly obtaining the sum of N4.8 million under false pretences. Babatunde, whose address was not provided, is facing a three-count charge of conspiracy, fraud and dishonesty. He, however, pleaded not guilty to the charges. The Prosecutor, Insp. Olusegun Kokoye, told …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":1824391,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[6631,4312,13599,5742,2147,37,13600],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/advocate.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1824390"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/advocate.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/advocate.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/advocate.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/advocate.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1824390"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/advocate.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1824390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1824392,"href":"https:\/\/advocate.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1824390\/revisions\/1824392"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/advocate.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1824391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/advocate.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1824390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/advocate.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1824390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/advocate.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1824390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}