An Abuja-based senior lawyer, Everestus Chinedu Ugwuowo has been charged at the Federal High Court, Abuja over alleged fraud totalling the sum of N29 million.
In the trial at the Federal High Court, the lawyer and three others had allegedly defrauded a woman of the sum of N29 million after fabricating documents to sell a residential building in Abuja to her.
A document sighted by DAILY POST in Abuja on Friday indicated that the same lawyer also faces disciplinary proceedings at the Legal Practitioners’ Disciplinary Committee in a petition with Number BB/LPDC/520/2021.
The amended 11-count charge with Charge Number FHC/ABJ/CR/121/2018 was dated and filed on April 29, 2019, by ACP Simon Lough, SAN and is pending before Justice Obiora Egwuatu.
The Inspector General of Police, IGP had arraigned Ugwuowo, Umar Sanda Adamu, Usman Audu and Adole Christopher Oche, a staff of the Bureau of Public Procurement as the 1st to 4th defendants respectively.
When the matter came up on the 28th day of October 2024 both the prosecuting and defence counsels agreed to resume trial on January 14, 2025.
Alleged N29m Fraud: Lawyer faces criminal charges, disciplinary proceedings by professional body