Fake Bureau De Change operator jailed 87 years for N325m fraud

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Justice Malami Dogondaji of the Sokoto State High Court has convicted and sentenced Abubakar Ahmad to 87 years imprisonment for criminal breach of trust and obtaining by false pretence the sum of N325

,800,000 . Ahmad was jailed on Thursday, October 5, 2023, after pleading guilty to 12-count charges bordering on criminal breach of trust and obtaining by false pretence. One of the charges reads: 'That you Abubakar Ahmad, sometime in October 2022 in Sokoto within the Judicial Division of the High Court of Justice Sokoto State while being entrusted with property to wit: the total sum of N80,100,000.

00 by one Najib Hamza for the purpose of Bureau de Change business; you dishonestly converted the said property/sum to your personal use in violation of the mode in which the trust was to be discharged and you thereby committed the offence of Criminal Breach of Trust contrary to Section 300 of the Sokoto State Penal Code Law 2019, and punishable under Section 301 of the same Law'.

 

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