The Kano Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Wednesday June 1, 2022, secured the conviction of one Mukhtar Habib Ali before Justice Zuwaira Yusuf of the Kano State High Court on a three count charge of criminal breach of trust.
The convict fraudulently collected the sum of N2, 800,000 (Two Million Eight Hundred Thousand Naira Only) for the purchase of Toyota Corolla from the United States since 2018 but diverted the money to his personal use.
One of the counts read, “That you, Mukhtar Habib/Ali on or about the 21st May, 2019 at Kano within the Judicial Division of the High Court of Justice of Kano State being entrusted with certain property to wit: the sum of One Million, Eight Hundred Thousand Nara (1,800,000.00) through your GT Bank account No. 0140624071 by one Nafiu Armi’yau Muhammed as part payment for the purchase of a car, Toyota Corolla 2015, from Copart, committed criminal breach of trust thereof by converting the said sum to your own personal use and you thereby committed an offence punishable under Section 312 of the Penal Code”.
The defendant pleaded guilty to all the three counts.
In view of his plea, the prosecution counsel, B.M Buhari, asked the court to convict him accordingly.
Counsel for the defendant, Ahmed Yusuf Adejumoh pleaded with the court to temper justice with mercy as the convict is remorseful and did not waste the time of the court.
Consequently Justice Yusuf convicted and sentenced the defendant to six months imprisonment or pay a fine of N50, 000 (Fifty Thousand Naira Only) on count one. On count two, the convict was sentenced to three months imprisonment with option of N20, 000 fine while on count three, he was sentenced to four months imprisonment with option of N30, 000 (Thirty Thousand Naira Only) fine.
