Forty-five-year-old trader, Olubayo Temitope, and his wife, Suliya, aged 25, have been arraigned before an Ore Magistrates’ Court for alleged N6,470,000 fraud.
They were arraigned on a two-count of fraud and obtaining money under false pretence.
Police Prosecutor, Muyideen Yekini, said the defendants committed the offences between January and August , at Kajola in Araromi-Obu.
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Yekini said the couple fraudulently obtained the money from Kazeem Sarufat and Kazeem Morufat, under the pretence of supplying them palm oil but converted the money to their use.
He said the offences contravened sections 516, 419 of the Criminal Code Cap. 37 Volume 1 Laws of Ondo State of Nigeria, 2006.
The defendants pleaded not guilty to the offences preferred against them. Magistrate, B. A Ikusika, granted the defendants bail at N1 million each with two sureties.