EFCC arraigns Nigerian-American over alleged $320,000 vehicle import fraud

The Ilorin Zonal Directorate of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC)has actually arraigned a Nigerian-American, Oluwatobi Adegoke, before Justice Olubunmi Abike-Fadipe of the Special Offences Court, being in Ikeja, Lagos State, over a supposed taking offense.

Adegoke was jailed in July 2026 by operatives of the EFCC’s Ilorin Zonal Directorate over a supposed cross-border automobile import scams including more than $320,000, comparable to roughly N434.88 million.

According to a declaration provided by Oyedele Babatunde, the Kwara anti-agency representative, the initial examinations supposedly exposed that the offender was apparently a member of a United States-based distribute that defrauded unwary Nigerians under the guise of buying and importing cars from the United States.

Additional examinations showed that while living in the United States, Adegoke supposedly marketed and distributed pictures of a 2024 Mercedes-Benz G63 AMG to potential purchasers in Nigeria, declaring he might acquire and deliver the high-end lorry to them.

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The commission declared that 2 victims paid a combined amount of more than $320,000 in connection with the deal.

The one-count charge submitted versus the accused mentioned a various deal including a supposed $680,000 payment.

The charge checks out: “Oluwatobi Adegoke at some point in December 2024 at Lagos, within the Ikeja Judicial Division, dishonestly transformed to your own usage the amount of $680,000, home of Ikechukwu Osita Ifeabunike, being cash moved to the savings account of your business, Omosco Auto Sales LLC, for the purchase of a 2022 G-Wagon from Robinson.”

The charge was brought under Sections 278( 1 )(b) and 285( 1 )(a) of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2015.

Adegoke pleaded innocent to the charge.

Following his plea, EFCC counsel, Arazeem Adebayo, advised the court to remand the offender and repair a date for trial.

Defence counsel, Olalekan Abiodun, who had earlier raised an objection to the arraignment however was overthrown by the court, consequently made an application for the accused to be remanded in EFCC custody pending the filing of his bail application.

The court likewise overthrew the defence counsel’s application.

Justice Abike-Fadipe bought that Adegoke be remanded at the Kirikiri Correctional Centre and adjourned the case up until January 13, 2027, for trial.

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