An Ikeja High Court on Thursday remanded an American citizen, Marco Ramirez, at Kirikiri Maximum Prison for professedly defrauding three Nigerians in a $565,000 green card and investment scam.
Mr. Ramirez was remanded following his not-liable request to a 16-count charge of getting cash under false habitations. He was charged by the EFCC.
The EFCC prosecutor, V. O. Aigboje, charged that the accused, overseeing executive of three organizations – USA Now Plc., Eagleford Instalodge Group and USA Now Capital Group – submitted the offenses between February 2013 and August 2013.
Mr. Aigboje said Mr. Ramirez falsely got $545,000 from Godson Echejue to put
resources into his organization, Eagleford Instalodge Group, keeping in mind the end goal to obtain an American green card (living arrangement allow) for him (Echejue).
He additionally purportedly got $10,000 from Abubakar Umar through a non-existent investment program in the U.S., which was charged to make Mr. Umar qualified to get an American international ID.
The EFCC additionally denounced Mr. Ramirez of illicitly accepting $10,000 from one Olukayode Sodimu under the affection that the assets were help charges with the American Immigration Services for an American green card.
After Mr. Ramirez took his request, Mr. Aigboje asked for that he be taken from the guardianship of EFCC to jail authority. "There are no bed spaces accessible in the commission. I apply that the respondent be remanded in jail authority," she said.
Chukwudi Maduka, the protection direct, in his accommodation, asked for that Mr. Ramirez be kept in the authority of EFCC and not in the care of the Nigerian Prison Service.
Equity Josephine Oyefeso, in any case, rejected Mr. Maduka's ask for and requested that Mr. Ramirez be remanded in jail. "The best possible place for remand is jail authority and I so arrange. The case is, therefore, dismissed to July 3 for knowing about the respondent's ball application," she said.
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