The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) Kaduna Zonal Command has charged Ibrahim Shuaibu with fraud before Justice Darius Khobo of the Kaduna State High Court.
According to a Monday statement on the EFCC X handle, Shuaibu is facing seven counts of criminal breach of trust, impersonation, and acquiring N100 million under false pretences.
Count one of his charges reads, “That you, Nuhu Ibrahim Shuaibu (a.k.a. Ishaku Abdulrazak) (M) and lIya Garba (now deceased) sometime in 2017 in Kaduna within the judicial division of this honourable court did conspire between yourselves to do an illegal act, to wit: obtaining money under false pretence and thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 8(a) of the Advance Fee Fraud and Other Fraud Related Offences Act, 2006 and punishable under Section 1(3) of the same Act.”
Another reads: “That you, Nuhu Ibrahim Shuaibu (a.k.a. Ishaku Abdulrazak)(M) sometime in 2018 at Kaduna within the judicial division of this honourable court, with intent to defraud, obtained the total sum of N47,050,000.00 (orty-seven million and fifty thousand Naira) from one Faisal Safiyanu, when you claimed to supply him petroleum products, which pretence you knew to be false and thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 1(1)(a) of the Advance Fee Fraud and Other Fraud Related Offences Act 2006 and punishable under Section 1(3) of the same Act.”
When the charges were read to him, he pleaded “not guilty” to all of them, causing the prosecution lawyer, M. Lawal, to request a trial date from the court.
His attorney, AbdulKareem Audu, failed to file a bail application. Justice Khobo then ordered the defendant to be held in the custody of the EFCC.
Shuaibu’s case began in 2017, when he falsely identified himself as the NNPC’s Group Executive Director and offered to assist his victim in obtaining over 2,000 litres of petroleum products.
The victim then deposited the agreed-upon sum into Shuaibu’s bank accounts in installments.
However, after receiving the funds, Shuaibu failed to deliver the merchandise or refund the victim’s money.
