Ex-Afromedia chief remanded for alleged fraud

Date: 2016-03-18

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) yesterday arraigned Alhaji Mohammed Gobir before Justice Raliat Adebiyi of a Lagos State High Court in Igbosere, on multi-billion naira fraud charges.

Gobir, a former non-executive director and chairman of Business Development Committee of Afromedia Plc, is accused of fraudulently obtaining $1 million (about N198,870,000.00); N514,457,151.87; $2,102,740 (about N418,171,903.80); N123 million and £51,000 (N14,667,898.25).

He is facing a 17-count charge bordering on obtaining money under false pretence, stealing, fraud, use of forged documents, and possession of forged documents.

In a charge marked LS/2542C/16, EFCC prosecutor, Mr. A.B.C. Ozioko, told the court that between January 2009 and December 2011, with intent to defraud, Gobir obtained N514, 457, 151.87 from the firm by pretending that the amount represented the cost of facilitating and securing the sum of $70 million from his account with NATVEST Bank, London, United Kingdom, “as your investment fund in Afromedia Plc out of the sum of $250 million USD.

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