{"id":3617,"date":"2015-08-10T15:03:20","date_gmt":"2015-08-10T15:03:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sahara.test\/?p=3617"},"modified":"2015-08-10T15:13:26","modified_gmt":"2015-08-10T15:13:26","slug":"police-indicts-2-men-over-alleged-of-25m-diamond-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/saharaweeklyng.com\/police-indicts-2-men-over-alleged-of-25m-diamond-fraud\/","title":{"rendered":"Police Indicts 2 Men Over Alleged Of 25m Diamond Fraud"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><div id=\"stcpDiv\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sahara.test\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/police.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-3623\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sahara.test\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/police.jpg?resize=311%2C194\" alt=\"police\" width=\"311\" height=\"194\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Two men,\u00a0 and Uzoma Nwankwo, charged with defrauding a man of N25 million, under the pretext of helping to secure diamond, on Monday appeared in an Ebute Metta Chief Magistrates\u2019 Court, Lagos.\u00a0Nwankwo resides at No. 42, Abati St., Ikotun Egbe, while Akanu resides at No. 11, Oke Filling Station Rd., Ejigbo, a Lagos suburb.<\/p>\n<p>They are both facing charges of obtaining under false pretext, stealing and conspiracy.\u00a0The two accused persons, however, denied the charges.<br \/>\nEarlier, the prosecutor, ASP Olagoke Akinlade, had told the court that the accused committed the offences on Sept. 21, at Cele Ijesa, along Mile 2 Express Road, Lagos.<br \/>\nAkinlade alleged that the duo approached and hypnotised one Chibuike Igbobureke and told him they could supply him with N25 million worth of diamond.\u00a0He said the victim was equally told to swear an oath not to disclose the business to any one or what had transpired.\u00a0\u201cIgbobureke boarded a vehicle on the Mile 2 axis and was hyptonised into paying the sum of N25 million into various accounts.<br \/>\n\u201cHe had paid up to N25 million into various accounts before he realised he had been conned,\u201d Akinlade said.\u00a0He said the offences contravened Sections 285, 312 and 409 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2011.\u00a0Section 285 prescribes seven years jail term, while 409 stipulates two years for offenders.\u00a0The Chief Magistrate, Mrs O.I. Adelaja, granted the accused bail in the sum of N2 million each with one surety in like sum and adjourned the case till Sept. 2 for mention.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two men,\u00a0 and Uzoma Nwankwo, charged with defrauding a man of N25 million, under the pretext of helping to secure diamond, on Monday appeared in an Ebute Metta Chief Magistrates\u2019 Court, Lagos.\u00a0Nwankwo resides at No. 42, Abati St., Ikotun Egbe, while Akanu resides at No. 11, Oke Filling Station Rd., Ejigbo, a Lagos suburb. They [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3624,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[78,73],"tags":[82],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/saharaweeklyng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Nigeria-Police.jpg?fit=284%2C177&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Suws-Wl","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/saharaweeklyng.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3617"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/saharaweeklyng.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/saharaweeklyng.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saharaweeklyng.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saharaweeklyng.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/saharaweeklyng.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3617\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saharaweeklyng.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/saharaweeklyng.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saharaweeklyng.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saharaweeklyng.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}