{"id":67043,"date":"2022-11-27T22:43:27","date_gmt":"2022-11-27T21:43:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/?p=67043"},"modified":"2022-11-27T22:43:27","modified_gmt":"2022-11-27T21:43:27","slug":"obtaining-by-false-pretence-court-orders-arrest-of-indian-business-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/obtaining-by-false-pretence-court-orders-arrest-of-indian-business-man\/","title":{"rendered":"Obtaining By False Pretence: Court Orders Arrest Of Indian Business Man"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"H_1BObGP iz_FF\" data-test-id=\"message-group-content\" data-touch-scroll-enabled=\"true\">\n<div class=\"k_w jb_7ceA d_93qVS D_F ek_BB\">\n<div class=\"U_fq7 em_N\" data-test-id=\"message-card\">\n<div class=\"U_6MGW\">\n<div data-test-id=\"message-view-body\">\n<div class=\"msg-body P_wpofO iy_A\" data-test-id=\"message-view-body-content\">\n<div class=\"jb_0 X_6Fd5 N_6Fd5\">\n<div data-test-id=\"message-body\">\n<div 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filed and argued before the court,stated that bails falls within the discretionary power of the court but desire to inform the court that\u00a0 Santosh Singh 43,is a foreign National of Indian origin,consequently if the court is mindful of granting bail to him,the court considers the nature of the case and grant bail in such terms and condition\u00a0 that will guarantee the attendance of the defendant in court trial.<\/div>\n<div id=\"yiv4180143670yMail_cursorElementTracker_1669398413592\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Despite the stringent condition of bail the Indian business man,after fulfilling\u00a0 \u00a0the condition of his bail he absconded.<\/div>\n<div id=\"yiv4180143670yMail_cursorElementTracker_1669383800634\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0The two count charge as filed before the court against the defendants by the prosecutor Barrister Azubuike Sylvester from the legal\/prosecution section of the Nigeria Police Special Fraud Unit Milverton Road ,Ikoyi Lagos, Nigeria,is stated below.<\/div>\n<div id=\"yiv4180143670yMail_cursorElementTracker_1669398723106\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"yiv4180143670yMail_cursorElementTracker_1668175730967\">COUNT ONE<\/div>\n<div id=\"yiv4180143670yMail_cursorElementTracker_1668175738963\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"yiv4180143670yMail_cursorElementTracker_1668175765020\">That you Lakunle\u00a0 Bello Shola &#8216;M&#8217;, Santosh Singh &#8216;M&#8217;, Thramaseed Impex Limited and Vivek Bansal<\/div>\n<div id=\"yiv4180143670yMail_cursorElementTracker_1669198279579\">\u00a0&#8216;M&#8217; now at large, sometime in August 2019 in Lagos, within the Jurisdiction of this Honourable Court, conspired among yourselves to commit a felony to wit: obtaining by false pretences 240 Metric Tonnes of Sesame Seed, 118.9 Metric Tonnes of Cashew Nuts valued at N175,421,600.00 (One Hundred and Seventy Five Million, Four Hundred and Twenty One Thousand, Six Hundred Naira Only) property of a Company known as Continental Logistics Limited,\u00a0 \u00a0contrary to 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