The court phrases Mohammed Gobir at seven years for N300m …

Justice Rib Adeniyi of the State High Court sitting at Ikeja Lagos, Wednesday 9 July 2025, sentenced and sentenced the guru of outdoor advertising, Mohammed Gobir, seven years of imprisonment for N300m fraud.

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His prison trip began after being arrested by EFCC’s agents in his Ikoyi residence, Lagos on September 12, 2015, following a petition received by the Commission by an outdoor advertising company, Afromedia.

According to the signature, Gobir was introduced to the company by his private placement consultants, Synergy Capital Advisory Limited, in 2008.

Subsequently, he offered to invest the sum of n1 billion in Afromedia, a pretext that earned him the position of president, a business development committee, on the board of directors.

The investigations have shown that Gobir, having earned the confidence of the company’s board of directors, has framed the company of several million in hard currency.

Subsequently he was accused on March 17, 2016 by the Commission for economic and financial crimes, EFCC, on charges of 17 counts to the limit of obtaining false claims, theft, possession of fraudulent documents and falsification.

One of the counts recites: that you, Mohammed Gobir, a non -executive director and president of the Company for the company development of Afromedia Plc, between January 2009 and December 2011 in Lagos, within the jurisdiction of this honorable Court, with the intention of fraud, obtained the sum of N514,457,151.87 (five hundred and fifteenth century of fifty hectenne, they obtained a sum of hygieth-homettum Eighty Seven Kobo) from Afromedia Plc by Falsely Pretending to Afromedia Plc That the Said Sum of Money Representated the Cost of Facilitating and Securing the Sum of $ 70,000,000 (Seventy Million Dollars) from Your Account in Natwest Bank, London, London, London, United Kingdom As Your Investment Fund in Afromedia Plc Out of the $ 250,000,000 (Two Hundred and Fifty Million United States Dollars) Stashed in Your Account At Natwest Bank, London, United Kingdom that you knew you knew how you knew how to be false and therefore committed a crime against section 1 (3) of the fraud of the anticipated commissioners and others fraud relating to fraud, n. 14, 2006. “

He declared himself “not guilty” for the accusation, thus bringing to his full test.

During the trial, the accusation consultant, Nnaemeka Omewa, called four witnesses and presented several documents that were admitted into test against the defendant. The defender councilor, YB Bayero called three witnesses.

During the judgment on Wednesday, the judge Adbiyi sentenced and sentenced the defendant to seven years of imprisonment for counting 1 to obtain a false claim; It has four and five of theft and has 8, 11, 14 and 17 of possession of fraudulent documents.

He was sentenced to six months imprisonment for four and five theft counts.

The phrases must perform simultaneously.

The judge ordered the prisoner to pay a return of $ 1 million USD and ₦ 123 million for convictions for four and five counts for theft.

The return must be paid to the nominal denunciation.

The Court, however, resigned with regard to falsification and being in possession of false documents.

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