Court orders detention of businesswoman over alleged N250m fraud
Justice Inyang Ekwo, of a Federal High Court in Abuja, on Friday, has ordered the Inspector-General of Police, Alkali Baba Usman to arrest and detain a Lagos businesswoman, Mrs Min Ling for 90 days, over allegedly N250m fraud.
The order followed an ex-parte application filed by the Inspector General of Police.
It was gathered that Mrs Min Ling has alleged duped two London based businessmen to the tune of about N250million.
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An affidavit in support of the ex-parte motion stated that the police claimed to have received a petition from a Lagos based Spirit Law Firm on behalf of two London based businessmen, Demein Oluwagbemi and Ogunleye Temitope complaining that they have been defrauded to the tune of about N250m.
In granting the request of the police, the presiding judge, Justice Inyang Ekwo ordered that Mrs Ling be arrested and detained pending completion of the investigation into the complaints of fraud levelled against her.
The court held that the 90 days detention period begins from the day of her arrest in any part of Nigeria or abroad.
Meanwhile, the petition showed that the two London businessmen are cryptocurrency traders dealing in Bitcoin transactions with the wanted woman as their agent in Nigeria.
More so, the affidavit alleged that after defrauding the two men, Mrs Ling relocated from her Ikeja known address and also changed her telephone number.
The Police are claiming that preliminary investigation revealed the woman had escaped to an unknown destination alongside others involved in the alleged fraud.
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