A woman, Nkechi Mercy Ikogwe
alongside two companies, Elites Finance Investment Limited and Efinc Global
Investment Limited, were on Monday arraigned before Justice E.A. Obile of the
Federal High Court sitting in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, over alleged N179
million fraud.
EFCC arraigned them on a
three-count charge bordering on conspiracy and obtaining money by false
pretence contrary to Section 1(1) (a) of the Advance Fee Fraud and Other Fraud
Related Offences Act No. 14, 2006 and punishable under Section 1 (3) of the same
Act.
The woman was said to have used
the sum of N139,704,097 of the N179 million to play sport betting and also paid
a tithe of N1 million to a church in Port Harcourt.
One of the counts against the
defendants read: “That you Nkechi Mercy Ikogwe, Elites Finance Investment
Limited and Efinc Global Investment Limited sometime in 2019 in Port Harcourt,
Rivers State within the jurisdiction of this honorable court with intent to
defraud, obtained the sum of N179,326,386.62 by inducing unsuspecting members
of the public to invest with your companies:
Elites Finance Investment Limited
and Efinc Global Investment Limited, assuring them under a false pretence of
making 15% interest on all investment made, a representation you knew to be
false, and thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 1(1) (a) of the
Advance Fee Fraud and Other Fraud Related Offences Act No. 14, 2006 and
punishable under Section 1 (3) of the same Act.”
Justice Obile ordered that the
1st defendant, Ikogwe, be remanded in prosecution’s custody and adjourned the
matter till October 19,2020 for determination of the bail application.
Mercy ran into trouble when the
commission received a report about the defendant and two others, accusing them
of inducing their victims into participating in a fraudulent investment scheme
with a fake promise of 15 per cent return on investment.
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