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EFCC Arraigns Estate Agent for N9.6m Fraud

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Kaduna zonal office, on Wednesday, February 14, 2018 arraigned one Awwal Tahir, and his company, Interland Skills Limited, before Justice M. Tukur of State High Court, Kaduna on a 2-count charge of obtaining by false pretence to the tune of N9.6million. Tahir, a real estate agent, was said to have approached his victim sometime in June, 2016 offering to purchase his Toyota Camry 2013 model at the cost of N6million, with a promise to pay within two weeks, but failed. According to the petitioner, Tahir gave him four plots of land at National Ey…