The defendants, whose residential addresses were not provided, are standing trial on four counts bordering on fraud, conspiracy and breach of the peace.
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NSCDC Commandant in Ondo State, Oluyemi Ibiloye, paraded the suspect before newsmen on Tuesday in Akure.
Adefola, who resides in Lugbe, Abuja, is charged with criminal breach of trust and cheating.
The police charged the defendant, who resides at No 6, Musa Iya-Jigo Street, Bwari, Abuja, with criminal conspiracy, breach of trust, cheating and using as genuine forged document.
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Ipaye sentenced the trio after they pleaded guilty to the charge during their re-arraignment by the Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offences Commission
The three accused persons were arraigned before Justice Hussein Baba-Yusuf of the Federal Capital Territory High Court on five counts of conspiracy, criminal breach of trust, forgery and making of false statements
Those picked up at different locations were either caught using forged public documents like bank statements and letters from government agencies or for aiding and abetting the production of same to procure visas at the Indian High Commission
The arraignment followed the re-arrest of the accused, who had jumped an administrative bailed earlier granted him by the EFCC
The court was told that the accused person, after succeeding in convincing the complainant, collected the sum N1,126,000 under the false pretence of procuring a United Kingdom visa for him, his brother and his landlord’s son but that the visas, which the convict procured, were fake