By Ruby Leo
A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos has remanded an estate developer, Kelly Nwogu, was on Friday for allegedly obtaining N65m from a church under false pretence.
The defendant is facing three counts of conspiracy, obtaining by false pretence and fraudulent conversion, preferred against him by the Police Special Fraud Unit.
Nwogu was arraigned alongside his company, Livelihood Homes Limited, and others still at large before Justice Peter Lifu.
The prosecutor, Emmanuel Jackson, told the court that the defendants and others now at large, committed the offences sometime this year.
Jackson told the court that the estate developer, his company, and others now at large, fraudulently obtained N65m from a church in the Ojodu area of Lagos State, with a false pretence of having plots of land for sale at the Ewekoro Local Government Area of Ogun State, and Agbara, Badagry Expressway in Lagos.
He said after receiving the money from the church, the defendant failed to give out the land as promised and also failed to reimburse the church.
According to him, the offences contravened Sections 8(a), 1(1)(8) and punishable under Section 1(3) of the Advance Fee Fraud and Other Fraud Related Offences Act, No. 14 of 2006 and Section 15(2)(b) of the Money Laundering (Prohibition) Act, 2011 as Amended in 2012.