Anti-corruption and elections / EFCC

N2.7m Fraud: Appeal Court Upholds Man’s 14-year Jail Term

A three-man panel of the Court of Appeal, Lagos Division, on Thursday, February 8, 2018, upheld the conviction and sentencing of one Abiodun Ibrahim Atobalete, who was charged with a N2, 700,000( Two Million, Seven Hundred Thousand Naira) fraud. The convict had been arraigned sometime in 2012 before Justice O.A. Akinlade of the Lagos State High Court sitting in Ikeja, Lagos on a two-count charge bordering on obtaining money under false pretence to the tune of N2, 700,000 fraud. In a petition dated May 11, 2010, the complainant, Chief G.O. Onipede, alleged that the defendant collected the money…