A 25-year-old man,
Dare Samuel, has been arraigned by the police in a Yaba Magistrate’s Court,
Lagos State, for trying to save a fake sum of $38,000 (about N7m) in a bank.
It was learnt that
the suspect was arrested on November 26, at a branch of the United Bank for
Africa Plc in Ikeja, the state capital, when he wanted to deposit the sum.
Source gathered that
a banker, who was attending to the suspect, raised the alarm after confirming
the notes to be fake.
Dare Samuel was
later transferred to the Department of Criminal Investigation in the Yaba area
of the state for investigation.
Police said Samuel
had committed the alleged crime in connivance with some suspects who were at
large.
A prosecutor,
Inspector Rita Momah, brought the defendant before the court’s magistrate, Mrs.
A.0. Ajibade, on two counts bordering on forgery.
The charges read,
“That you, Dare Samuel, and others at large, on November 26, 2014, at about
4pm, at the UBA Plc on Adeniyi Jones, Ikeja, in the Lagos Magistrate District,
did conspire to commit felony to wit; possession of forged notes, and thereby
committed an offence contrary to and punishable under Section 409 of the
Criminal Law of Lagos State, Nigeria, 2011.
“That you, and
others now at large, on the same date, time and place, in the aforesaid
magisterial district did have in your possession a sum of $38,000 suspected to
be fake and knowing it to be forged and thereby committed an offence punishable
under Section 370 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2011.”
The defendant
pleaded not guilty to the counts.
Ajibade admitted him
to bail in the sum of N150,000 with two sureties in like sum.
She said the
sureties must be blood relation with the defendant, adding that their addresses
and means of livelihood should be verified by the court.
The case was
adjourned till January 28, 2015.
Source: Punch
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