Justice H.H. Kereng of the Gombe State High Court has sentenced the President of the National Association of Charcoal Producers and Exporters, NACPE, Edu Babatunde Azeez, to one year in prison over a fraud case involving N7 million.
Azeez and his company, Ablims Limited, pleaded guilty to two counts of conspiracy and obtaining under false pretenses. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Gombe State Zonal Command, arraigned Azeez and his company following a petition filed by Ayanbisi Ismail, who alleged that Azeez defrauded him of N7,183,750, and all efforts to get a refund proved abortive.
The two count charge preferred against Azeez read: 'That you Edu Babatunde and Ablims Limited sometime in December 2022 at Gombe, Gombe State within the jurisdiction of this honourable court fraudulently obtained the sum of N7,183,750 from one Ayanbisi Ismail by falsely representing the money to be for exporting charcoal to Saudi Arabia, a representation which you knew to be false and thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 320 and punishable under Section 322 of the penal Code Law.
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