Anti-corruption and elections / EFCC
N86m Land Scam: Court Fines Defence for Delaying Trial
Justice A. O. Otaluka of the Federal Capital Territory High Court sitting in Lugbe, Abuja, on Wednesday, October 9, 2017 ordered Barrister Samson Paul, counsel to Sebastine Duru, a suspected land racketeer, to pay the sum of N5, 000 (Five Thousand Naira) as fine to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, for delaying trial. Duru was arraigned on May 18, 2017 on one-count charge of fraud to the tune of N86million. He was alleged to have, between 2012 and 2013 “in Abuja defrauded and obtained the sum of N86million from one Alhaji Aliyu Idris Shuaibu on the pretext of re-instatement o…
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