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Judge Sodetan Ogunsanya of the Lagos High Court, sitting in Ikeja on Monday, June 27, convicted one Stella Achebe and her company InfiniteFavorNigeria Limited for N10m fraud.
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has charged Achebe and its companies for crimes adjacent to the issuance of checks, contrary to Section 1 (1) (b) of the Disgraceful Check (Crime) Act of 2004, contrary to the section. Earned credit by fraud. 2011 Lagos Criminal Code 313 (1) (a).
Defendant was charged with an amended 4-count charge dated February 27, 2015. One of the charges is as follows:
“Stella Achebe and Infinite Favor Nigeria Limited deliberately issued a Diamond Banker’s Check dated April 30, 2013 within the Ikeja Justice Department of Lagos in April 2013. When presented for payment within three months, I was disgraced because the bank account on which the check was drawn was either out of funds or out of funds. “
Another accusation states: As a result, Leinadibanie Nigeria Limited has incurred debt or liabilities for the above amounts. “
During the course of the trial, prosecution lawyer GC Akaogu summoned four witnesses and submitted some documentation to prove the proceedings against the defendant.
Witness prosecutors revealed that the defendant had only N3,129.77 in her account when the defendant issued the same amount of check.
The prosecution also provided evidence proving that the defendant pretended to be false and received the above money because he was not engaged in the oil and gas business as he claimed.
The defendant, who said she was a lawyer called to Nigeria Bar in 2002, also claimed she was engaged in the oil and gas business and took her to the dock to protect herself. ..
She claimed that the money she got from the victims petitioned to the EFCC was for the supply of diesel diesel oil AGO from MRS.
However, during the course of the trial, the defendant stopped coming to court.
On February 27, 2019, when the parties adopted a written address, the court ordered the defendant to revoke his bail and declare her wanted, following the prosecution’s application. The court issued her arrest warrant, which prompted the postponement of the case’s decision.
However, since then, the defendant has not appeared in court.
He ruled on June 27, 2022, claiming that “it was clear that the defendant paid bail and that all efforts by her lawyer to find her were half-hearted.” Judge Ogunsanya said the delay in the judgment “willfully and deliberately refuses the defendant to show up in court.”
The judge further stated that the witness and written indictment was a bid “proven by convincing, credible and convincing evidence beyond reasonable doubt,” and all accusations were filed against her. Therefore, she and her company were found guilty.
Following her conviction, Judge Ogunsanya postponed the sentence “until the defendant appeared in court.”