A suspected fraudster, Eso Dickson Omogba (aka Esho Dickson)
is in a big trouble at the moment. Dickson, who is being prosecuted by the
Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC before a Federal Capital
Territory High Court, Abuja for allegedly defrauding his victim of N17.2million
through fraudulent and unauthorized withdrawals from his bank account in a new
generation bank, was on Thursday implicated by a witness, who told the court
how N13million was fraudulently withdrawn from the victim’s account by the
accused.
Earlier, the defence counsel, B. Adigbe had sought to tender
a copy of the witness’ statement to the court but this was opposed by the
prosecuting counsel, who told the court that the document was a public
document.
Dickson who was arraigned on the 2nd of August 2012 had
pleaded not guilty to an 8-count charge of forgery and theft.
Count one reads;
“That you Eso Dickson Omogba (aka Esho Dickson) and others
now at large on or about the 15th day of September, 2011 within the
jurisdiction of the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory agreed amongst
yourselves to do an illegal act to wit; theft of N17, 200,000 (Seventeen
million two hundred thousand Naira) and thereby committed an offence contrary
to Section 97 and punishable under Section 287 of the Penal Code’’.
Prosecution had called three witnesses in the course of the
trial; PW1- Dr Saleb El-Yakub Abdullahi who is the complaint whose account was
debited fraudulently ; PW2 -Koyejo Adetiloye, the investigating officer, and
Benedict Agweye, a Forensic expert who tendered a forensic report indicating
that the signature of the complainant was forged.
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