The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) yesterday arraigned a woman, Bisi Olagunju, in an Oyo State High court for allegedly defrauding a contractor of N9 million.

Olagunju was arraigned on a three-count charge bordering on obtaining money by false pretense.

The suspect was alleged to have claimed to be Special Adviser to the Chairman of the Urban and Rural Development Committee in the House of Representatives. She allegedly received N9 million in tranches from a contractor, Abiodun Julius, with a promise to facilitate a contract for him at the National Assembly as well as help secure job for his younger brother with the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC).

She was arrested after a petition by Julius.

The charge read: “That you Bisi Lillian Olagunju sometime in November 2015 at Ibadan within the Ibadan Judicial Division with intent to defraud obtained N5million from Abiodun Julius under the false pretense that money represented form part payment to secure a contract for the supply of computers to the National Assembly and which pretence you knew was false.”

Olagunju, however, pleaded ‘not guilty’ to the charges.

She was granted bail of N10 million and two sureties by Justice Muktar Abimbola.

The sureties must be residents within the jurisdiction where the financial crime was committed and must have sufficient evidence of ownership of properties to be verified by the EFCC.

The judge further ruled that the accused person must deposit her international passport with the court registrar while hearing was fixed for June 13 and 14.