Lagos socialite, Mr Fred Ajudua, will be arraigned before a Lagos High Court in Ikeja on February 12, 2014, for allegedly defrauding a former Chief of Army Staff, Lt.-Gen. Ishaya Bamaiyi, of about $8.395 million.
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC, which filed new charges against the suspect, said he would be arraigned alongside others with whom he allegedly committed the crime between November 2004 and June 2005.
The fresh charges against Ajudua and others, dated October 14, comprise 13 counts of conspiracy and fraud.
Other suspects to be arraigned Ajudua but said to be at large are: Alumile Adedeji (aka Ade Bendel), a man simply identified Mr Keneth and Princess Hamabon William.
The EFCC alleged that Ajudua and the other suspects allegedly defrauded Bamaiyi at the Kirikiri Maximum Prisons, where he and other suspects were on remand for fraud also alleged that the suspects fraudulently collected the money from Bamaiyi, falsely claiming that it was part of the professional fees charged by a legal luminary to facilitate his release from prison.
The anti-graft agency also alleged that Ajudua and the others fraudulently claimed that $1 million of the money collected from Bamaiyi was for financial assistance to treat Justice Olubunmi Oyewole’s father.
The suspects were said to have told Bamaiyi that Oyewole’s father was admitted at St. Nicholas in Lagos and that $1 million was needed to assist the judge for the medical expenses of his father.
Justice Ipaye adjourned the matter till February 12, 2014 for the arraignment.
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