An Indian businessman, Patrick Fernadez, was bygone arraigned by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, afore an Ikeja High Court, for fraudulently accepting phones admired at N13.8million and arising dud cheque to owners.
Fernadez, who is adverse a five-count allegation adjoining on accepting by apocryphal braggadocio was arraigned afore Justice Adeniyi Onigbanjo.
The anti-graft bureau said that Fernadez, committed the offence, amid March 29 and April 1, 2012, in Ikeja by fraudulently accepting altered types of buzz sets annual N13.8million.
Fernadez was said to accept falsely issued a dud cheque afterwards accession the appurtenances and said that the money will be accessible and be paid aural one week.
EFCC, aswell declared that Fernadez, on or about April 7, 2012, had issued a dud cheque of FCMB No. 10564279, in the sum of N8.150million, which if presented for transaction was alternate contributed on the area of bereft funds in the account.
According to EFCC, the answerability is adverse to area 1(3) of the avant-garde fee artifice and added artifice accompanying offences Act 14, 2006, arising of dud cheque adverse to area 1(1) of dis-honoured cheques Act laws of Federation, of Nigeria 2004.
Earlier if the accuse was apprehend to him, the actor pleaded not accusable to all the accuse proffered adjoin him by the EFCC.
However Justice Adeniyi Onigbanjo, accepted him bond in the sum of N2million, with two sureties in like sum.
Onigbanjo, added that the actor should drop his all-embracing travelling abstracts to the agency and he asked that the actor be adjourned in Ikoyi bastille custody, awaiting if he can absolute is bond application.
He adjourned the amount to September 17 and 19, for trial.
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