The Lagos State Police Command has arraigned one Victor Williams in a Yaba Magistrate’s Court for stealing N2.5 million from his former employer’s checkbook.
Victor was charged with faking Alhaji Moshood, his former boss, on the check and taking more than N2 million out of the account.
On Thursday, Williams appeared before Magistrate P. E. Nwaka and was charged with three counts of theft and forgery.
Thomas Nurudeen, the police prosecutor, informed the court that the act violated Sections 411 and 287(1) of the Lagos State Criminal Law and is punished by those provisions.
The charge read in part;
“That you, Victor Williams, in February 2023 did unlawfully withdraw N500, 000 from the account of your ex-employer, Adekunle Moshood, in the Magodo area of the state over the counter and had subsequently transferred N2m into your account without the consent of the original owner of the account and thereby committed an offence punishable under Section 411 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State.”
The allegations were read to the defendant in English, but he entered a plea of not guilty. Nwaka accepted the defendant’s plea and granted him bail in the amount of N500,000 with two dependable sureties in the same amount.