24TH DEC. 2013
PRESS BULLETIN
CONSPIRACY AND OBTAINING MONEY UNDER
FALSE PRETENCES
SUSPECTS: [1]
HAJARA EGBRA
[2]
ALHAJI MOHAMMED SADIQ
SFU
has arrested one Hajara Egbra in a case of obtaining the sum of N25million
under false pretences. A petition dated
5th June, 2013 alleged that in 2009, the Petitioner, a business
woman purchased a plot of land measuring 2,500 sq. meter within Asokoro
Extension, Abuja from the suspect on an agreed sum of N25million and the
payment was made in three instalments of Ten Million Naira and Eight Million
Naira. The suspect issued a receipt with
Invoice No. 0073 dated 29/09/2009 and Invoice No. 0201 dated 06/10/2009. The Petitioner further alleged that the third
payment of Five Million Naira was paid through First Bank cheque No. 01795293
dated 19th December, 2012.
The Petitioner stated that it was while she was trying to process the
building plan and other related documents that she discovered that she has been
duped.
The
suspect actually sold to her a land that already has an owner. Also, the suspect gave her another plot which
she had already fenced with the sum of N450,000.00 and was later told by the
suspect that the plot is equally not vacant.
The
suspect, Hajara Egbra who hails from Okene in Kogi State was arrested along
with one Mohammed Sadiq. Hajara Egbra, a
45years old Technical Officer with Federla Capital Development Authority and also
double as a business woman with a shop at Garki Modern Market, Abuja. She confessed the allegation leveled against
her of obtaining the sum of N25million from the Petitioner. That she gave the sum of N18.5million to one
Alhaji Mohammed Sadiq, a Developer while the remaining balance is for her
services. Mohammed confessed collecting
the sum of N18.5million from Hajara and has jumped the Police bail. Effort is on to re-arrest the fleeing
suspect.
The
arrested suspect will be charged to court soonest.
DSP NGOZI ISINTUME-AGU
Police Public Relations Officer
For: Commissioner of Police
Special Fraud Unit
Ikoyi – Lagos
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