By Modupe Gbadeyanka
A man employed by Jaiz Bank Plc has been convicted by Justice Fadawu Umaru of the Borno State High Court, sitting in Maiduguri.
The convict, Mr Imam Malik, was found guilty of defrauding one of the customers of the Islamic financial institution located in Borno State.
Mr Malik was charged to court by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on a one-count charge bordering on cheating to the tune of N1.5 million.
He was said to have fraudulently collected the N1.5 million from one Mr Muhammad Sani Abubakar for a purported Mudaraba Investment with Jaiz Bank Plc.
“That you, Imam Malik, a former staff of Jaiz Bank Plc, sometimes in November 2016, in Maiduguri, Borno State, within the Jurisdiction of this Honourable Court with intent to defraud, did obtain the sum of N1,500,000 (One Million Five Hundred Thousand Naira) only from one Muhammad Sani Abubakar, a customer of Jaiz Bank, under the false pretence that the said money will be used to service his interest in Mudaraba Investment, which pretence you knew to be false and thereby committed an offence contrary to section 320(a) of the Borno State Penal Code Laws cap, 102 and punishable under section 322 of the same law,” the charge read.
After pleadeding “guilty” to the charge preferred against him, counsel for the prosecution, Halima Alhaji Shehu, prayed the court to convict and sentence him as charged.
The judge thereafter, adjourned the matter to March 18, 2019 for sentence and ordered the convict to be remanded in prison.
