Anti-corruption and elections / EFCC

EFCC Docks Businessman for N34m Fraud

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC Gombe Zonal Office has arraigned one Alhaji Umar Aji before Justice Nehizena Apolabi of the Federal High Court, Gombe State on a one-count charge bordering on obtaining money by false pretence. Yahaya Umar Barambu, the nominal complainant of the case alleged that sometimes in July 2017, he was introduced to the defendant by a friend, Alhaji Lawal Bala for a Madrid Timber business in Taraba State which they agreed. Afterwards, he paid the sum of N34 million in tranches of N10 million, N11 million, N9 million and N4 million into the Fidelity Ban…