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EFCC Arraigns Fayose for Alleged N17.6m Fraud

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on July 4, 2019 arraigned one Isaac Fayose before Justice Binta Muhammad of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT High Court, Lugbe for offence bordering on advance fee fraud. The charge against him reads: “That you, Isaac Fayose, on or about 3rd September 2008 in Abuja within the Abuja Judicial Division of the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory with intent to defraud, obtained the gross sum of N17,600,000 (Seventeen Million Six Hundred Thousand Naira) from one Joe Onyiuke under false pretence that the said sum represent part payment fo…