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‘Serial fraudster’ bags 53 years for N17.1m fraud

A serial fraudster Aliyu Zakari has been sentenced to 53 years in jail for N17.1 million fraud.

Zakari was convicted by Justice Sherifat Solebo of the Special Offences Court, Ikeja, Lagos on Wednesday.

The convict was prosecuted by the Lagos zonal office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on six-count charges of obtaining money by false pretence and stealing, to which he pleaded not guity.

Zakari was accused of defrauding Mrs. Obiezuono Adaeze of Maglo Tech Inter Limited in July 2014 to confer a benefit of 1, 762 bags, valued at N17.1 million on you under the false pretence.

Prosecution counsel, Franklin Ofoma in the course of the trial, invited witnesses and tendered documents that were admitted in evidence by the court, while the defendant testified for himself and had just one witness.

Justice Solebo in his judgment convicted the defendant and sentenced him to 10 years imprisonment on counts one to five and three years on count six.

Zakari’s journey to prison began after he fraudulently took delivery of some bags worth N17, 136, 450.00 from his victim, Obiezuono Adaeze of Maglo Tech Inter Limited.

During their meeting sometime in 2014, Zakari, who was being investigated for offences bordering on issuance of dud cheques, told Adaeze, who was also at the Lagos detention facility of the Commission, that the Kano State Government needed a large supply of trolley bags, shoulder bags, pilot bags and pilot cases, valued at N17,136, 450 .

Upon her release from the Commission’s holding facility, the victim supplied all the items to Zakari, who did not deliver them to the Kano State Government, but converted them to his own.

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