Estate Agent Docked Over Alleged N10m Fraud

Estate Agent Docked Over Alleged N10m Fraud

A self-acclaimed estate agent, Durojaiye Adetimi, has been arraigned before a Lagos Federal High Court, for allegedly obtaining the sum of N10 million, by false pretence from one Olatunde Egbesola.

Durojaiye who is said to be a Personal Assistant (PA) to a Commissioner in Lagos State, was arraigned before the court presided over by Justice Saliu Saidu on a two-count charge of conspiracy and obtaining by false pretence, by the men of Force Criminal Investigation Department (ForceCID) Annex, Alagbon-Ikoyi, Lagos.

The defendant  was alleged to have committed the offences, which are contrary to  8(a), 1(1)(a) of the Advance Fee Fraud and other Fraud Related Offences Act No. 14 of 2006 and punishable under 1(3) of the same Act, sometimes in June, 2017.

To perpetrate the alleged offences, the prosecutor, Mr. Tijjani Williams, in a charge marked FHC/147c/2020, told the court that the defendant and others now at large, sometimes in 2007, fraudulently obtained the sum of N10 from the fraud victim, Olatunde Egbesola, by falsely presenting to him that he wanted to redevelop his family house located at 10, Ojora Close, Victoria Island, Lagos.

The defendant has however, denied the allegations. And has been admitted to bail with some terms and conditions.

At the resumed hearing of the matter today, defendant’s counsel, Mr. Layi Dawodu, told the court that all efforts to get the charge’s proof of evidence from the prosecutor did not yield desire result.

He therefore asked the court for an adjournment to enable him get the proof of evidence from the prosecutor.

However, the presiding judge, Justice Saidu, while conceded to the counsel request, chastised him for absence from court severally after his client’s plea was taken.

Meanwhile, the matter has been adjourned till February 25, defendant’s trial.