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Fake Lawyer in EFCC’s Net for Dropping Name of Commission, Fraud

The Ilorin Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC has arrested a 53-year-old man, Muhammed Bolaji Abdulraheem for obtaining money under false pretence, while parading as lawyer and dropping the name of the Commission. Abdulraheem is accused of defrauding his unsuspecting client, Mallam Yusuf Bello of N300,000 (Three Hundred Thousand Naira). Bello in his petition to the EFCC alleged that Abdulraheem, while being his “lawyer,” recovered the sum N300,000 from his debtor but rather than bringing forth the money, claimed that it was in the custody of the EFCC. When confr…

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