The Economic and Financial Crimes
Commission has arraigned one Enekwechi Onyimba before Enugu State High
Court for allegedly selling a property to one Enyinnaya Igwe and also
using the Certificate of Occupancy of the house to secure a loan.
Onyiba was brought before the Chief
Judge of Enugu State High Court, Justice I. A. Uwazulike, on two counts
of criminal diversion of funds and obtaining money by false pretences.
The EFCC, in a statement by its
spokesman, Mr. Wilson Uwujaren, said Onyimba sold a property located at
plot 622, Trans-Ekulu, New GRA, Enugu, Igwe, but “fraudulently withheld
the C of O” and used it as collateral to secure a loan for his company,
Ojaz Nigeria Limited.
“The complainant alleged that he bought
the said property from the accused via an irrevocable power of attorney
dated December 12, 2000 and registered as no 77/77 in volume 1473 at the
Land Registry in Enugu, in August, 2005,” the statement read.
The charges read in part, “That you,
Enekwechi Onyimba, on or about August 29, 2006 in Enugu, Enugu State,
within the jurisdiction of the Enugu State High Court of Nigeria, with
intent to defraud, induced Diamond Bank Plc to grant a loan of N3.4m to
your company – Ojaz Nigeria Limited – when you falsely represented to
Diamond Bank Plc that you were the beneficial owner of Plot 622
Trans-Ekulu, New GRA, Enugu, which you offered as collateral for the
said loan, which pretence you knew to be false and thereby committed an
offence.”
When the charges were read in court, the accused person pleaded not guilty.
The court granted the accused person bail in the sum of N1m with one surety in like sum.
The case was adjourned till June 24 and 30, 2014.
