The Economic and Financial Crimes
Commission, EFCC, on September 21, 2015 arraigned one Amadi Jude before Justice
Emmanuel Obile of the Federal High Court Calabar, Cross River State on a
12-count charge bordering on obtaining money by false pretence.
Amadi who goes by different
pseudo names – Richard Smith, Mike Anderson, Richard Darwin, Jackson Miller,
and Morgan Abela, is alleged to have collected N4,544,000 from a Swedish
national, and promised to marry her.
Count one reads: “That you,
Amadi Jude Junior (alias Richard smith, Mike Anderson, Richard Darwin, Jackson
Miller, Morgan Abela) ‘m’, John Ikechukwu Efughi (at large), and Farouk (at
large), between May 2014 and January 2015 in Calabar, Cross River State, within
the jurisdiction of this honourable court did conspire among yourselves to
commit felony with it: obtaining money by false pretence and thereby committed
an offence contrary to section 8 (a) of the Advance Fee Fraud and Other Fraud
Related Offences Act, 2006 and punishable under section 1 (3) of the same act.”
The accused person pleaded
not guilty to all the charges. Justice Obile, adjourned till October 12, 2015
and ordered the accused person be remanded in prison custody.
Media & Publicity
EFCC
23rd September, 2015
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