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£45,000 FRAUD: How Suspect Escaped From Custody - Prisons Official Tells Court | DETAILS

Faith Ukanwa

Mar 01, 2022

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£45,000 FRAUD: How Suspect Escaped From Custody - Prisons Official Tells Court | DETAILS
A Federal High Court sitting in Ibadan, Oyo State, on Monday, February 28, 2022, subpoenaed an officer of the Nigerian Correctional Service, Deputy Superintendent of the Correction (DSC) J.O. Oyaleke over his failure to produce in court, one Otuyalo Oluwadamilola, a defendant who is being prosecuted by the Ibadan Zonal Command of the EFCC and remanded by the court for his involvement in cybercrimes to the tune of £45,000 (Forty-Five Thousand Pounds Sterling).

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Oyaleke, was served with the "summonÔÇØ on February 25, 2022 to come and testify about the whereabouts of the defendant. The officer who is attached to Justice Uche Agomoh's court and charged with the responsibility of producing any defendant remanded by same court failed to produce the defendant on the 2nd of December, 2021 which had been slated for commencement of trial.

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When asked by the court about the whereabouts of the defendant, Oyaleke told the court that the defendant was amongst the 401 inmates who fled Abolongo Correctional facility on October 22, 2021 during an attack by some bandits.

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Justice Agomoh, adjourned the matter till June 29, 2022, for mention.

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