Related Offences Decree No. 13 of 1995 and punishable under
Section 2 of the same Decree as amended by the Tribunals
(Certain Consequential Amendments etc) Decree No. 62 of 1999.
Count Two:
That you Jimoh Hassan and Others at large sometime in May 2006
at Abuja in the Abuja Judicial Division of the High Court of Abuja
did with intent to defraud, represent yourselves as capable of
producing from pieces of papers genuine British Pound Sterling
Notes by treating the papers in a chemical substance and
thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 2(a) of the
Advance Fee Fraud and Other Related Offences Decree No. 13
of 1995 and punishable under Section 2 of the same Decree as
amended by the Tribunal (Certain Consequential Amendments
etc) Decree No. 62 of 1999.
The Defendant was arraigned on the 11/7/06 where he pleaded
not guilty on the two count charge.
The prosecution in proving its case against the Defendant called 3
witnesses.
The PW1 is one Yakubu Bala, a Police Officer attached to EFCC
Operation Department.
In his evidence-in-chief, he stated that on 10/5/06 he was in his
office for normal duty, a woman by name Mrs. Basirat reported to
the Operation Department that a syndicate was making effort to
defraud her. He was detailed to lead a team of operatives to go
along with her. They asked her to speak to the suspect on her
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