Saturday, July 13, 2024 -Justice K. Dagat of the Federal High Court, sitting in Maiduguri, Borno State, has convicted and sentenced three illegal Bureau-de-Change operators to one-year imprisonment each.
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission
disclosed this in a statement on X.com (formerly Twitter) on Friday.
The statement revealed that the defendants:
Buba Ahmadu Aliyu, Mohammed Mustapha, and Muhammad Zarami, were arraigned by
the Maiduguri Zonal Directorate of the EFCC on Wednesday on a one-count
separate charge for operating illegal bureau de change businesses.
The statement partly read, “The count
against Aliyu reads, ‘That you, Buba Ahmadu Aliyu, sometime in May 2024, within
the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court, did carry on other financial
business without a license issued by the Central Bank of Nigeria, contrary to
section 57 (1) and (2)b and punishable under section 57 (5) b of the
Banks and other Financial Institutions Act, 2020.
“While the charge against Mustapha reads:
That you, Mohammed Mustapha, sometime in May 2024, within the
jurisdiction of this Honourable Court, did carry on, other financial
business without a license issued by the Central Bank of Nigeria contrary
to Section 57 (1) and (2)b and punishable under 57 (5) b of the Banks and
other Financial Institutions Act, 2020.”
The defendants were said to have pleaded
“guilty” to the charges when they were read to them.
Justice Dagat thereafter convicted and
sentenced the defendants to one-year imprisonment with an option of N100,000
each.
The convicts were reported to have bagged their imprisonment
when they were arrested for operating bureau-de-change businesses without an
appropriate licence.
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