Ibrahim Shuaibu was charged with fraud by the Kaduna Zonal Directorate of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission before Justice Darius Khobo of the Kaduna State High Court, which is located in Kaduna State.
Shuaibu is being prosecuted on seven-count charge, including criminal breach of trust, impersonation, and obtaining by false pretence, totalling N100 million, according to a statement posted on EFCC X.com on Monday.
Count one of his charges reads, “That you, Nuhu Ibrahim Shuaibu (a.k.a Ishaku Abdulrazak) (M) and lIya Garba (now deceased) sometime in 2017 in Kaduna within the judicial division of this honourable court did conspire between yourselves to do an illegal act, to wit: obtaining money under false pretence and thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 8(a) of the Advance Fee Fraud and Other Fraud Related Offences Act, 2006 and punishable under Section 1(3) of the same Act.”
Another reads: “That you, Nuhu Ibrahim Shuaibu (a.k.a Ishaku Abdulrazak)(M) sometime in 2018 at Kaduna within the judicial division of this honourable court, with intent to defraud, obtained the total sum of N47,050,000.00 (Forty-Seven Million and Fifty Thousand Naira) from one Faisal Safiyanu, when you claimed to supply him petroleum products, which pretence you knew to be false and thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 1(1)(a) of the Advance Fee Fraud and Other Fraud Related Offenses Act 2006 and punishable under Section 1(3) of the same Act.”
He pleaded “not guilty” to all the charges when they were read to him, prompting the prosecution counsel, M. Lawal to urge the court to fix a trial date. His counsel, AbdulKareem Audu failed to file a bail application.
Subsequently, Judge Khobo directed that the defendant be placed under EFCC custody on remand.
The prosecution of Shuaibu started in 2017 when he offered to assist his victim in purchasing more than 2,000 litres of petroleum products while posing as the Group Executive Director of NNPC.
The victim then made incremental transfers of the agreed-upon sum to Shuaibu’s bank accounts.
Shuaibu, however, did not deliver the goods or return the victim’s money after receiving the funds.
