Two State Shari’a Court judges, a cashier and 16 other financial registrars were on Thursday remanded in prison by a Kano State Chief Magistrates’ Court over alleged N580.2 million theft. The police had charged suspects with five counts of criminal conspiracy, joint act, criminal breach of trust by a public servant, theft and forgery. The suspects include Bashir Kurawa, Saadatu Umar, Tijjani Abdullahi, Maryam Jibrin-Garba, Shamsu Sani and Hussaina Imam, Sani Ali Muhammad, Sani Buba-Aliyu and Bashir Baffa.
January 19, 2023The police had charged suspects with five counts of criminal conspiracy, joint act, criminal breach of trust by a public servant, theft and forgery.
The suspects include Bashir Kurawa, Saadatu Umar, Tijjani Abdullahi, Maryam Jibrin-Garba, Shamsu Sani and Hussaina Imam, Sani Ali Muhammad, Sani Buba-Aliyu and Bashir Baffa. According to the prosecution counsel, between 2020 and 2021, Hussaina Imam used her position as a cashier at the State Shari’a Court of Appeal to conspire with four others and one Suleiman now at large, to forge letterheads of the Sharia Court of Appeal.
The lawyer also alleged that from 2018 to 2021, the defendants criminally conspired, breached the trust as a public servant, acted jointly and create 15 fake civil servants’ death benefit files and fraudulently siphoned the sum of N96.2 million. The prosecution counsel pointed out that the offence contravened the provisions of sections 97, 79, 315, 287 and 363 of the Penal Code.
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