A Benin Excessive Court docket on Thursday remanded a 39-year-old Man, Ewombe Lumiere, in a Correctional Centre over alleged N10 million fraud.

The prosecutor, Polycarp Odion, instructed the courtroom that the defendant was going through a one-count cost of fraud.

Odion stated Lumiere dedicated the offence on March 13, 2025, in Benin Metropolis, throughout the Benin Legal Division.

In keeping with the prosecutor, the defendant beneath the false pretence of importing items to Nigeria from China, with intent to defraud, did acquire the sum of N10 million from one Ofure Okhiria.

He famous that the offences contravened Part 1(1) (a) and had been punishable beneath Part 1 (3) of the Advance Charge Fraud and Different Fraud Associated Offences Act, 2004.

The persecutor in a movement exparte, citing related sections, urged the courtroom to remand the defendant in a correctional centre, for an Preliminary interval of 14 days pending authorized recommendation from the workplace of the Director of Public Prosecution within the state.

The presiding Choose, Justice Ogbevoen remanded the defendant within the correctional centre and adjourned the case till June 4, 2025, for listening to.

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