According to Sahara
report, a Nigerian guy killed his foreign lover and escaped with her money. The
Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Wednesday, June 4, 2014
arraigned a suspected romance scammer: Omokoh Orowo Jesse before Justice R.B
Akintola of the Oyo State High Court, Ibadan
Specifically, Jesse allegedly fleeced an Australian lady,
Jette Jacobs of the sum of $90,000 (Ninety Thousand United States Dollars) in a
romance scam that went awry. He reportedly met Jesse in an online dating site
and contrived a relationship with her. Reports showed that Jette travelled to Johannesburg , South Africa Nigeria
Jesse returned to Nigeria
All the nine
charges were read to Jesse and he pleaded not guilty.
Count one of the charge reads: “Omokoh Orowo Jesse,
Ifeanyi Oro (still at large), Emojewe (still at large) and David (still at
large) sometime in 2012 at Ibadan within the Ibadan Judicial Division with
intent to defraud conspired to obtain the sum of $70,000 (Seventy Thousand
Dollars) from one Jette Jacobs, a 67-year-old Australian woman under the false
pretence that the money represents payment for marriage engagement processes
between you and her in Nigeria and which pretence you knew was false”.
In view of Jesse’s plea, EFCC Counsel, Zainab Ettu prayed
the court for a trial date and for the remand of the accused person in prison
custody. However, counsel to the accused person, Tunji Ogunude informed the
court that he had filed an application for bail and sued for bail on liberal
terms for his client.
Justice Akintola
after listening to both counsel, adjourned the case till July 10, 2014 for
hearing of bail application and ordered that the defendant be remanded in
Agodi.
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