The Economical and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has arraigned an alleged Con Artist, Sennaike Opeoluwa before of a Lagos State High Court sitting in Ikeja, over obtaining money from publics unlse pretense.
Opeoluwa was arraigned alongside his firm, Sennaike Consulting Limited, before Justice O.A. Okunuga for allegedly fraudulenobtainingined $5m and N800m from unsuspecting members of the society.
He however pleaded “not guilty” when the charges were read to him.
Thereafter, EFCC Counsel, Ahmed Yerima, who represented the EFCC at the proceedings, prayed the court for a trial date and for the remand of the defendant at the Correctional Centre.
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Meanwhile his lawyer, Akeem Akinroye, made an oral application for his bail, arguing that “he doesn’t constitute a flight-risk”.
Justice Okunuga, however, noted that the court was a court of records while advising the lawyer to file a proper bail application before the court.
The defendant was thereafter ordered to be remanded at the Correctional Centre pending when a formal bail application would be brought before the court.
The case has been adjourned till June 28, 2023 for trial.
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One of the counter reads: “David Sennaike Opeoluwa and Sennaike Consulting Limited sometime between the months of January 2021 and March 2022 within the Ikeja Judicial Division of this Honourable Court deceitfully obtained an aggregate sum of $5,000,000 (Five Million US Dollars) from unsuspecting members of the public, on the understanding that the payment was an investment for the protection and prevention of a developed Cyber-Security Software for onwards delivery to the United States of America.”
Second count: “David Sennaike Opeoluwa and Sennaike Consulting Limited sometime between the months of January 2021 and August 2022 in Lagos within the Ikeja Judicial Division of this Honourable Court deceitfully obtained and aggregate sum of N800,000,000 (Eight Hundred Million Naira) from Mr. Olugbenga Ojo, Benson Ogungbamiwa, and other several unsuspecting members of the public, on the understanding that the payment was an investment for the protection and prevention of a developed Cyber-Security Software for onwards delivery to the United States of America.”
Third count: ”
David Sennaike Opeoluwa and Sennaike Consulting Limited on or about the 6th day of October 2022 in Lagos within the Ikeja Judicial Division of this Honourable Court with dishonest intention forged document printed from your laptop, titled “EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES”, dated November 22, 2021, and other related documents containing fraudulent conversation allegedly made between Kamala Harris, representative of the Government of the United States of America and Olugbemiga Ojo, President and CEO of Langberg Incin order to defraud unsuspecting members of the public.”
