A Federal High Court in Yola, Adamawa State, has sentenced four persons including a woman to 160 years imprisonment on a multiple-count charge of conspiracy and possession of counterfeit bank notes...
Justice Abdulazeez Anka handed down the sentences to the convicts in the case brought by the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission .A statement by the Spokesperson for ICPC, Mrs. Rasheedat A. Okoduwa , said the convicts were caught at a checkpoint with counterfeit worth N5, 504, 000.
“Investigation launched by ICPC operatives led them to the residence of the counterfeiter at Wamdeo Uba, where he was arrested. “At the conclusion of investigations, except for Bello Salisu, who was charged with abetment to commit an offence of possession of counterfeit bank notes, the other four suspects, including the native doctor counterfeiter, were arraigned on a four-count charge of being in possession of counterfeit bank notes which is an offence contrary to Sections 5 and 6 , and punishable under Section 5 of the Counterfeit Currency Act, cap. C35, LFN 2004.
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