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EFCC Docks Suspected Job Racketeer for Fraud

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Tuesday, January 30, 2018 arraigned one Mahmoud A. Sadiq, a suspected job racketeer, before Justice Lawan Wada of the Kano State High Court on one count charge bordering on obtaining by false pretence. The accused person allegedly obtained a sum of N410,000 (Four Hundred and Ten Thousand Naira) from the complainant under the pretext that the said money was to secure him a job at the Umar Musa Yar'adua University, Katsina. Investigation by the EFCC revealed that the accused person was not a staff of the University as he claimed; rather, a c…