A lawyer, Abimbola Adeyinwolu, and her boyfriend, Adeola Ikumola, have been arraigned in an Ikeja Chief Magistrates’ Court, Lagos for allegedly defrauded their overseas friend of N4.6 million.
Adeyinwolu, 30, and Ikumola, 40, were arraigned on Thursday for conspiracy, stealing, forgery and obtaining money under false pretenses.
The prosecutor, Michael Unah, told the court that the defendants committed the offence with some other persons at large on December 31 2018, at 64 Ademola Adetokunbo Street, Victoria Island, Lagos.
The defendants, Unah said, collected N4.6 million from the complainant, Jennifer Obaseki, who lives abroad on the pretext of setting up a law firm for her.
The court heard that the lawyer and her boyfriend forged tenancy agreement documents in respect of 40 sq for an office space.
He said the offence contravened the provisions of sections 287, 314, 325, 365 and 411 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2015, (Revised)
Chief Magistrate A.A. Fashola admitted the defendants to bail in the sum of N500,000 each with two sureties each in like sum.
Fashola ordered that the sureties must be gainfully employed and should show evidence of three years tax payments to the Lagos State Government.
He also ordered that the sureties must be blood relatives of the defendants who must reside within the court’s jurisdiction.
The case was adjourned until May 30.
