The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Monday arraigned a woman, Bisi Olagunju, in an Oyo State High court for allegedly defrauding a contractor of N9 million.
Olagunju was arraigned before Justice Muktar Abimbola.
She was arraigned on a three-count charge of obtaining money by false pretense.
The suspect, according to the prosecution, allegedly claimed to be Special Adviser to the Chairman of Urban and Rural Development Committee in the House of Representatives.
She also received N9 million in tranches from a contractor, Abiodun Julius, with a promise to facilitate a contract for him at the National Assembly and help secure job for the victim’s younger brother with the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC).
She was arrested after a petition by Julius.
The charge reads: “That you Bisi Lillian Olagunju sometime in November 2015 at Ibadan within the Ibadan Judicial Division with intent to defraud obtained the sum of N5m from one Abiodun Julius under the false pretense that money represented part payment to secure a contract for the supply of computers to the National Assembly of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and which pretence you knew was false.”
Olagunju, however, pleaded ‘not guilty’ to the charges.
She was granted bail by Justice Abimbola in the sum of N10 million and two sureties in like sum.
The sureties must be residents within the jurisdiction where the financial crime was committed and must have sufficient evidence of ownership of properties to be verified by the EFCC.