The police have arraigned a 44-year-old man, Irewolede Banji, before an Ado-Ekiti Chief Magistrates’ Court over alleged fraud.
The defendant of no fixed address is standing trial on a two-count charge of fraud and conversion of money.
The prosecutor, Insp Johnson Okunade, told the court that the defendant committed the offence sometimes in the month of January 2018 at about 1100hrs at Fayose market in Ado-Ekiti.
He alleged that the defendant had the intent to withdraw the sum
of N1, 350,000 from United Bank of Africa (UBA) belonging to one Afolayan Semola.
The offences, he noted, contravened section (1) 3 of the Advance Fee
Fraud Act and Other Related Offence Federation of Nigeria, 2006 and Section 390 (9) of the Criminal Code, Laws of Ekiti State, 2012.