The Maiduguri Zonal Directorate of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arraigned one Mohammed Abdullahi Korimi before Justice Aisha Kumaliya of the Borno State High Court in Maiduguri over an alleged fraud involving N25,647,000.
Korimi was docked on Thursday, April 16, 2026, on a two-count charge bordering on criminal misappropriation and obtaining by false pretence.
According to the EFCC, the defendant allegedly obtained 400 bags of beans valued at over N25.6 million from one Maina Hassan Madube under the pretext of supplying them to customers in Sango-Ota, Ogun State.
The anti-graft agency stated that the defendant promised to remit payment within one week, a claim it said he knew to be false at the time.
One of the charges reads that Korimi, in July 2025, fraudulently secured the goods with intent to defraud, an offence punishable under the Advance Fee Fraud and Other Fraud Related Offences Act, 2006.
The defendant pleaded not guilty when the charges were read in court.
Prosecution counsel, S.O. Saka, requested a trial date and urged the court to remand the defendant pending trial.
Justice Kumaliya subsequently adjourned the case to April 22, 2026, for hearing of the bail application and ordered that the defendant be remanded at the Maiduguri Maximum Correctional Facility.
The EFCC said investigations revealed that the alleged fraud stemmed from a failed supply deal involving the 400 bags of beans intended for delivery in Ogun State.
