Trial of BDC operators on fraud charges adjourned to Feb 27
A Federal High Court, Lagos has suspended the trial of two Bureau De Change administrators (BDC) and their firm accused of extortion and issuance of flop check to February 27, 2017.The denounced are Abdullahi Awwal Mohammed, Mohammed Kabiru and their organization, Kabiru Global Investment Limited.They were summoned before Justice Mojisola Olatoregun by the Special Fraud Unit of the Nigerian Police on 10 tallies verging on those charges.
The denounced people as indicated by the charge were claimed to have falsely gotten N92.703 million from another BDC administrator, Mr. Churchill Tom Udo and his organization, Westgate Global Trust Limited under affectation that they can help him in changing the cash into American dollar comparable.
They were likewise claimed to have approximately July 15, 2015 issued 10 checks from their organization's record domiciled with United Bank of Africa (UBA) with record number 101896574 to Churchill Udo. Be that as it may, on introducing the checks at the bank for installment, they were stamped dismisses because of absence of adequate subsidizes in the record.
The Special Fraud Unit (SFU) prosecutor, E. A. Jackson, expressed that the offenses conferred by the BDC administrators are in opposition to and culpable under segments 1(1)(b) and 1(3) of Advance Fee Fraud and Other Related Offenses Act No. 14 of 2006, and areas 1(b), (2), and segment 2 of Dishonored Check (Offenses) Act, Cap. D11, Laws of the Federation of Nigeria, 2004.
In any case, the blamed BDC administrators argued not liable to the charges and have been confessed to abandon different terms and conditions.The arraignment of the BDC administrators and their organization, was spin-off of an appeal to kept in touch with Inspector-General of Police by a Lagos-based legal counselor, Mr. Hycinth Odu for the benefit of his customer, Churchill Tom Udo.
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