The Economic and Financial Crimes
Comission (EFCC) has arraigned a 60-year-old man who claimed to be a Professor
at the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile Ife in Osun State before a Federal High
Court sitting in Ikoyi area of Lagos State for allegedly obtaining money under
false pretence and engaging in advance fee fraud.
The arrest and subsequent
arraignment of the OAU "Professor" identified as Charles Jide-Oni,
stemmed from EFCC’s damning findings about the activities of an illegal
financial outfit he floated through which he allegedly swindled his victims of several
millions of naira. He was however granted bail to the tune of N10 million and
two sureties in like sum.
Read the full statement below;
A sixty-year-old man, Charles
Jide-Oni, who claimed to be a professor and lecturer at the Obafemi Awolowo
University, Ile Ife, Osun State, was arraigned before a Federal High Court
sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos State for allegedly obtaining money under false pretence
and engaging in advance fee fraud.
The Economic and Financial Crimes
Commission, EFCC, Ibadan zonal office, arraigned the ‘Professor’ and 12 other
internet fraud suspects before Justice Nicholas Oweibo, the Federal High Court
vacation judge for the Southwest zone, on Wednesday, September 4, 2019.
Jide-Oni’s arraignment was sequel
to the EFCC’s damning findings about the activities of an illegal financial
outfit he floated through which he allegedly swindled his victims of several
millions of naira.
Due to the bail application filed
and argued by his lawyer on his behalf, Justice Oweibo granted Jide-Oni bail to
the tune of N10 million and two sureties in like sum. The sureties, the court
held, must be of Grade Level 10 in the civil service and must be resident in
Osogbo, the Osun State capital.
The judge also ordered that the
accused person be remanded in Ilesha prison pending the time he is able to
fulfill his bail conditions as he adjourned substantive hearing to October 14.
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