A 52-year-old travel agent, Abimbola Lukman, has been arraigned before a magistrates’ court sitting in Isabo, Abeokuta, Ogun State, for allegedly defrauding a woman of N5.1 million meant for processing a visa.
The defendant who was arraigned on a three-count charge of conspiracy, fraud and theft pleaded not guilty.
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The prosecutor, ASP Olakunle Shonibare, told the court that the defendant on November 1, 2022, on Obafemi Awolowo Avenue in Abeokuta posed as a travel agent and under the pretext of assisting the complainant, Ruth Ahiamadu, to process a Canadian working visa collected N5.1m through a bank transfer from her and neither did he process the visa or refund the money to the complainant.
The Magistrate, Mrs O O Odumosu, granted the accused bail in the sum of N500,000 with two sureties in like sum and adjourned the case to February 14.
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