A Sabo-Yaba Chief Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday remanded a pastor, Azuka Ohez and his wife, Mary Ohez, for allegedly aiding in defrauding a lubricant company of N33.8 million.
The defendants of no fixed residential address are facing a two-count charge of conspiracy and fraud.
News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that, the couple were arraigned in the chamber of the Magistrate.
The Chief Magistrate Adeola Olatubosun ordered that the husband should be remanded in Ikoyi Correctional Center and the wife remanded in female Custodial facility.
Olatubosun granted bail in the sum of N10 million each with two responsible sureties each in like sum.
She adjourned the matter until May 13 for substantive trial.
NAN also report that, , the Prosecutor, ASP Rita Momah, told the court that the duo and some others still at large, committed the offences on July 13, 2023 at Oba Ayoka St, Lagos.
She alleged that the couple and one Chijioke Ezekirian, conspired to steal and received proceeds of sales from Climax Lubricants Industries in Lagos.
She submitted that the couple knowingly received the total sum of N33.8 million through a Fidelity Bank KPICPC account numbers 2033723459 and 5600923549 from Chijioke Ezekirian.
The offences, Momah said, contravenes Sections 328 (1) and 411 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2015.
Chiojoke, was not in court.
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