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June 06, 2019
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has arraigned Mr.
Uno Michael Eke the registered trustee of Micheno Multi-purpose Cooperative
Society, before Justice Simon Amobeda of the Federal High Court, sitting in
Calabar, Cross River State, on a separate 74-count charge, for allegedly
obtaining over N320 million (Three Hundred and Twenty Million) by false
pretence from innocent Nigerians.
Mr. Eke, supposedly scammed his victims through an alleged
ponzi scheme by inducing his victims to invest in his Swissgolden
packages,
through his company, Micheno Multi-purpose Cooperative Society, under the false
pretence of paying them 80 per cent return on investment within just 40 days.
With this enticing bait, Eke duped so many people through
the scheme, and when his investors started calling for their capitals and
expected interest, he vanished into thin air.
One of the charges against him reads: “That you, Uno
Michael Eke (being the president/chief executive officer of Micheno
Multi-purpose Cooperative Society) and registered trustees of Micheno
Multi-purpose Cooperative Society (MMCS) on or about the 12th day of July, 2018
in Calabar within the jurisdiction of this honourable court, with intent to
defraud, did obtain the sum of Forty-seven Million Naira (N47,000,000.00) from
one Briggs Nimi Osim by inducing her to invest same into your Swissgolden
packages through your Micheno Multi-purpose Cooperative Society Ltd, under the
false pretence of paying her 80% as return on investment on her principal sum
on the fortieth day of her investment, which pretence you knew to be false and
thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 1 (1) (a) of the Advance Fee
Fraud and Other Fraud Related Offences Act, 2006 and punishable under Section 1
(3) of the same Act”.
The matter was adjourned to June 13, 2019, for the hearing
of the bail application after he pleaded not guilty on all charges. T. N.
Ndifon, prayed the court for a trial date and for the accused person to be
remanded in prison custody. The defendant was remanded in prison custody.
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