The Attorney General of the Federation has filed criminal charges against 16 commercial banks’ officials who allegedly conspired to defraud one Micmerah International Agency Limited to the tune N327m.
In the charge filed against the accused before a Federal High Court in Lagos, the prosecution alleged that the bank officials and their bank acted under false pretences to induce the victim to deliver the money to them for the purpose of “offsetting a fraudulent import finance facility scheme.”
They were said to have also defrauded the victim by falsely pretending that the money was “meant for the payment of customs duty on four Volvo luxury buses and two 40 feet containers imported into Nigeria.”
The accused were charged with 21 counts bordering on advanced fee fraud and document falsification contrary to sections 1(1) (a), 1(3) and 8(a) of Advanced Fee Fraud and other Related Fraud Offences Cap A6 Laws of the Federation of Nigeria, 2004.
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