A Nigerian man has been arraigned before a court after he reportedly stole $56,000 from Bishop David Oyedepo.
Chimezie Chuta
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Lagos Zonal
office, on Wednesday, February 28, 2018, arraigned one Chimezie Chuta
before Justice Mojisola Dada of the State High Court sitting in Ikeja,
Lagos on a one-count charge bordering on stealing to the tune of
$56,000.00 (Fifty-six Thousand United States Dollars).
The offence is contrary to Section 285(7) of the Criminal Code Law
of Lagos State No. 11 of 2011. The defendant, a former employee in the
publishing unit of Dominion Book Stores, an online book store belonging
to The Living Faith Church Worldwide, allegedly hacked into the
company's mail and diverted payments for some goods bought by online
customers to his personal account.
The defendant, who was said to have been an active member of the
Living Faith Church Worldwide for six years, sometime in 2013, proposed
to the church to build an online digital media store that would showcase
all of Bishop David Oyedepo’s books and audio messages online to enable
members of the church in the Diaspora to buy them and also receive
digital copies.
Investigation revealed that the project was approved by the Church
absolutely free of charge on contract basis. It was further revealed
that the defendant handed over all the relevant materials to the ICT
Department of the church.
However, the defendant was alleged to have later gone behind to
hack into the computer server of the church to perpetrate the fraudulent
act. When the charge was read to the defendant, he pleaded not guilty.
In view of his plea, the prosecution counsel, Gabriel Akaogu, asked
the court for a trial date and prayed the court to remand the defendant
in prison custody.
However, the defence counsel, R.E. Osige, urged the court to admit
his client to bail. Justice Dada adjourned the case to March 7, 2018 for
hearing of bail application and commencement of the trial.
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