EFCC charges Bellview and First Nation airlines with N1.7bn fraud, arraigns them in court

The EFCC, according to our source report joined the managing director of First Nation Airlines, Kayode Odukoya, as the defendant in the four-count charge bordering on forgery, use of forged documents, perjury and stealing.

According to the anti-graft agency accused the defendants of forging the memorandum of loss of Lagos certificate of occupancy registered as number 33, at page 33, volume 1011 at the state’s land registry, Alausa.

The EFCC said the alleged forged document was in respect of a property located at 29 Oduduwa Street, GRA, Ikeja.

It was learnt that Odukoya was accused of dishonestly converting to his own a sum of N1.7 billion belonging to Skye Bank Plc.

According to the report, the prosecutor, MS Usman, told the court that the defendants acted contrary to sections 85, 86(1), 278(1)(b), 285, 361(1)(a)(b), 363 and 364(1) of the criminal law of Lagos state 2011, but they pleaded not guilty and the judge ordered the remand of Odukoya in the custody of the EFCC.

The case has been adjourned till March 26, 2018 for Odukoya’s bail application.