An employee of Pwan Plus Concern Limited, Chika Amanda, and two others, Fatimo Tijani and Alaka Owolabi, have been arraigned before an Igbosere Magistrates’ Court in Lagos for allegedly defrauding the company of N29.8m.
They were arraigned on four counts of conspiracy, obtaining under false pretences, stealing and forgery.
According to the police prosecutor, Friday Mameh, Amanda, alongside Tijani and Owolabi, obtained the sum of N29,892,726, which belongs to the firm on the pretext of saving it in the firm’s account.
Mameh told the court that the defendants committed the offences on June 18, 2019, on the company’s premises in the Ajah area of Lagos.
The prosecutor added that the defendants forged fictitious consultants’ documents to defraud the company.
Mameh noted that the offences contravened sections 363, 287, 314 and 411 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2015.
The defendants pleaded not guilty to the charges.
The presiding magistrate, Mr A. O. Alogba, admitted the defendants to bail in the sum of N250,000 with two sureties each in like sum.