EFCC Arraigns Scammer For ₦44.9m Nokia Phones 419

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The Economic and Financial Crime Commission, EFCC, Thursday arraigned one Patrick Fernandez, 50, before Justice Adeniyi Onigbanjo of the Lagos State High Court sitting in Ikeja on a five count charge bordering on obtaining money under false pretences and issuance of dud cheques worth N44,950, 000 (Forty- Four Million, Nine Hundred and Fifty Thousand Naira) contrary to section 1(1) of the Dishonoured Cheques Act Laws of Federation of Nigeria 2004.

One of the charges read, “Patrick Fernandez between 29th March and 1st April, 2012 at Ikeja within the Ikeja Judicial Division with intent to defraud did obtain different types of Nokia phone sets worth N13, 800,000 (Thirteen Million Eight Hundred Thousand Naira) only from Okay Computers when you falsely represented to her that the money was to be paid within one week after delivery/collection of goods and which promise you failed to abide with”