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Tuesday 30 June 2015

Open ICPC charges two for N72.6m fraud

Open ICPC charges two for N72.6m fraud

The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offenses Commission has charged two authorities of the National Anti-debasement Volunteer Corps, Akinyemi Badejogun and Olanrewaju Bakare, for an asserted burglary of N72.6m.

Badejogun and Bakare are the Coordinator and the Treasurer individually of the Lagos Chapter of NACV.

The ICPC on Tuesday accused them of 36 checks before Justice Lateef Lawal-Akapo of Lagos State High Court in Ikeja.

Be that as it may, two officers argued not liable to all the charges.

Notwithstanding, the ICPC, in its charge in the witness of the court, claimed that Badejogun and Bakare contrived to submit crime, stole and deceitfully changed over trusts having a place NAVC to their own utilization.

They were likewise blamed for putting forth false and deceiving expression to an agent of the ICPC.

The offenses, the commission, affirmed were conferred between December 2010 and November 28,2011.

In one of the checks, Badejogun and Bakare purportedly plotted to exchange a whole of N55m from one NAVC's record in Fidelity Bank into another record fitting in with the corps in the same bank.

As indicated by the ICPC, the blamed did this to present degenerate point of preference on themselves and accordingly ran foul of segments 19 and 26(1)(c) of the ICPC Act 2000.

In another occasion, the denounced persons professedly deceitfully exchanged N800,000 from the record of the Trustees of the Lagos Chapter of NAVC in Fidelity Bank and changed over same to their own.

The ICPC said this negate segments 516 and 390(8)(b) and is culpable under Section 390 (9) of the Criminal Code Act Cap 38, Vol. 4 Laws of the Federation of Nigeria, 2004.

They were likewise denounced to have at a few different occurrences stolen fluctuating entireties of cash running into a large number of naira from the corps record and that of its trustees.

The ICPC further charged Badejogun and Bakare for abusing Section 25 (1)(a) of the ICPC Act 2000, saying they were obligated to being rebuffed under segment 25 (1)(b) of the Act.

Taking after their arraignment and liable request, Lawal-Akapo suspended till July 3, 2015 to divert their applications for safeguard.

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