The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC Kaduna Zonal Office on
April 1, 2019 arraigned Abdulrazak Abdulrahaman and Asala Richard before
Justice Mohammed Tukur of the state’s High Court sitting in Kaduna on a
five-count charge bordering on conspiracy and obtaining money by false
pretence to the tune of N22,618,000 (Twenty-Two Million Six Hundred and
Eighteen Thousand Naira).
The EFCC had received a petition from Global Green Services Limited
accusing them of defrauding the company. Abdulrazak allegedly forged the
company’s documents after conspiring with Richard, to open different
accounts with the said documents in the name of Global Green Environmental
Services Limited where money meant for the company were diverted to.
One of the counts reads: “That you, Abdulrazak Abdulrahman, while being in
the employment of Global Green Environmental Services Limited and Asala
Richard while being in the employment of Aso Savings & Loans Plc, between
January and December 2014, within the jurisdiction of this Honourable
Court dishonestly converted to your own use, the aggregate sum of
N22,618,000 (Twenty-Two Million Six Hundred and Eighteen Thousand Naira)
only being money due to the Global Green Environmental Services Limited
and thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 308 and Punishable
under Section 309 ot the Penal Code Law.”
They pleaded “not guilty” to the charges.
Prosecuting counsel, Aishatu Ibrahim, thereafter, urged the court to fix a
date for commencement of trial, and for the defendants to be remanded in
prison.
Defence counsel, Kayode Gbenga, however, moved the bail application of the
second defendant.
While adjourning the case to May 8, 2019, Justice Tukur granted bail to
the second defendant in the sum of N5 million with one surety in like sum
who must be a reputable public servant or a businessman residing within
the Kaduna metropolis and must have money in his account to be verified by
EFCC. But the first defendant was ordered to be remanded in prison.