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EFCC Docks Apprentice, Two Others for Alleged N40m Fraud

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC Enugu Zonal Office, on Wednesday, December 18, 2019, arraigned an apprentice, Ikechukwu Obiekwe, Emma Ogonna Obiekwe and Ugo Chuwudi before Justice V.T. Nwoye of the Anambra State High Court, Onitsha, on an eight-count charge bordering on conspiracy, stealing and conversion to the tune of N40 million. Their journey to the dock began when the EFCC received a petition alleging that Ikechukwu, while under the employ of Rainbow Hair International, in 2014 as an apprentice and later, manager, of one of the company's branches in Onitsha, defrauded t…