Ifeoluwa Ademola, a 36-year-old travel agent, was charged by the police in Ibadan, the capital of Oyo State, on Monday with engaging in a N2.9 million visa scam.
Ademola was accused by the police of conspiring, getting something under false pretences, and stealing three times.
The defendant, whose address was not given, however, entered a not-guilty plea before an Iyaganku Chief Magistrates’ Court, according to NAN.
According to the prosecution, Mr. Akeem Akinloye, the defendant collaborated to conduct fraud and theft with those who are still at large.
According to Akinloye, Ademola collected N2. 9 million from the complainant, Miss Tawakalitu Nureni, in May under the guise of obtaining an American visa for her, despite knowing that this was untrue.
“Without the complainant’s permission, the defendant obtained a phoney marriage certificate with her name on it.
Ademola defrauded Miss Nureni of N2.9 million.
According to him, the charges violated Sections 390 (9), 422, and 419 of the Criminal Code as stated in the Laws of Oyo State from 2000.
The defendant was granted bail in the amount of one million naira with two sureties in the same amount by Magistrate Mrs. S. I. Babalola.
One of the sureties, according to Babalola, must be a blood relative of the defendant, and the second must be a landowner who is subject to the jurisdiction of the court.
She set the hearing date for October 23.
