EFCC AT IT ONCE MORE.......EFCC charges Edo Dep Gov's sibling over N9.3 m extortion

EFCC charges Edo Dep Gov's sibling over N9.3 m extortion 

– The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Monday, charged Mr. Joseph Ovbokhan Odubu and his organization, Even Handed Services Limited before Justice P. I. Ajoku of the Federal High Court, sitting in Benin, Edo State on a 3-tally charge verging on phony, expressing and acquiring cash by false nearness to the tune of N 9.3 million. Joseph, a sibling to the appointee senator Edo State, Pius Odubu, who is likewise the Managing Director of Even Handed Services Limited professedly utilized produced reports to acquire a credit office worth N 9.3 million on September 5, 2014 from First Bank Plc to encourage the supply of seats and work areas in Edo State. Joseph Ovbokhan Odubu One of the check peruses: "that you Odubu Joseph Ovbokhan and Even Handed Services Limited approximately the ninth day of September, 2014 in Benin inside the Jurisdiction of this Honorable Court, with expectation to cheat got the whole of (N9,360,000.00) Nine Million Three Hundred and Sixty Thousand Naira in credit from First Bank of Nigeria Limited, by misleadingly exhibiting a letter of domiciliation which you utilized as a sham and along these lines conferred an offense in opposition to Section 1(1) of the Advance Fee Fraud and Other Related Offenses Act 2006 and deserving of Section 1(3) of similar law. Another check peruses: "that you Odubu Joseph Ovbokhan and Even Handed Services Limited approximately the twelfth day of May, 2015 in Benin inside the Jurisdiction of this Honorable Court, with aim to swindle and to encourage misrepresentation, fashioned a record inscribed 'Demand FOR CONFIRMATION OF JOB COMPLETION TO OUR BANKERS (FIRST BANK, BENIN MISSION ROAD, BRANCH' implying that the said archive was gotten by Edo State Oil and Gas Producing-Areas Development Commission, with purpose that it might be followed up on as veritable, an appearance which you knew to be false and in this way dedicated an offense in opposition to Section 1(2)(c) of the Miscellaneous Offenses Act Cap M17 of the Revised Edition (Laws of the Federation of Nigeria) Act, 2007 and culpable under Section 1(2) of similar Act." He argued not liable to the charge when it was perused to him. In perspective of his supplication, the indictment advise, C. A. Okoli requested that the court alter a date for the initiation of trial and that the blamed individual be remanded in jail authority. In any case, guidance to the litigant, Osama Idehen made an oral application for safeguard which was rejected by the court as she was requested that document a formal application. Equity Ajoku dismissed the case to November 22, 2016 for trial and requested that the respondent be remanded in jail guardianship

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