The Police in Kano on Monday arraigned a 43-year-old man, Hamisu Musa, in a Magistrates’ Court sitting at Nomansland, Kano, for alleged fraud.
Musa is charged with criminal conspiracy, breach of trust, cheating and intimidation.
The offence contravenes sections 97,312,322 and 397 of the Penal Code.
The prosecutor, Insp Suleiman Ibrahim, told the court that sometimes in July, one Isma’il Aminu of Yalwa quarters, Kano, reported the matter at Bompai Police Division, Kano.
The report said Musa and five others now at large, conspired and deceitfully collected the sum of N20 million from Aminu.
According to the prosecutor, Aminu said that the accused persons promised to supply him with a petroleum product (AGO) from Brass in Yenegoa, Bayelsa.
He said the accused converted the money to their own personal use and whenever the complainant asked for the product or his money, they threatened to kill him.
When the charges were read to him, the accused pleaded not guilty.
The Magistrate, Ibrahim Khaleel, granted the accused bail in the sum of N3 million and two reasonable sureties.
He said one of the sureties should be a civil servant of grade level 10, while the second should be a Ward Head with a certificate of landed property within Kano metropolis and verified by the court.
He adjourned the case to Jan.19, 2015, for further mention.