Company MD Charged Allegedly Defrauds Widow Of N5m

One Aderemi Festus Oluwaji, the managing director of Bradshaw Global Services Limited, an investment firm, has been arraigned before an FCT High Court by the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC), for allegedly defrauding a widow of the sum of N5 million.

In a statement sent to Legit.ng by the ICPC’s spokesperson, Mrs Rasheedat A. Okoduwa, the agency stated that the accused person, who was arraigned alongside his company, defrauded the widow, identified as Lucy Awe Mohammed, under the guise that he would allocate four units of shops to her on Plot CD2 Lugbe 1 Layout, opposite AMAC Relocation Market, Lugbe, Abuja.

Though Oluwaji did not have any property as a personal developer at the mentioned address, he still deceived the widow into parting with her money.

In a one-count charge, the counsel for the ICPC, Agbili Ezenwa Kingsley, averred before the presiding judge, Justice Othman Musa, that the accused person’s action was contrary to Section 1 (a) and punishable under Section 1 (3) of the Advance Fee Fraud and Other Related Offences Act, 2006.

The count read: “That you, Bradshaw Global Services Limited and Aderemi Festus Oluwaji on or about March, 2015, with the intent to defraud, obtained the total sum of five million naira (N5,000,000:00) from Mrs Lucy Awe Mohammed under false pretense that four units shops would be allocated to her on Plot CD2 Lugbe 1 Layout, opposite AMAC Relocation Market, Lugbe, Abuja and you thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 1 (a) and punishable under Section 1 (3) of the Advance Fee Fraud and Other Related Offences Act, 2006.”

The accused pleaded not guilty to the charge and Oluwaji was granted bail in the sum of N7 million with a surety in like sum who must be resident in Abuja. 

The presiding judge adjourned the case till December 3, 2018 for the commencement of hearing.

  

Meanwhile, Legit.ng previously reported that the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) on Monday, September 24, arraigned Bature Umar Masari, a former director general of the Small and Medium Scale Enterprise Development Agency of Nigeria (SMEDAN) before an FCT High Court sitting in Apo, Abuja.

He was arraigned on 27 counts bothering on money laundering and embezzlement. 

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