For allegedly stealing a bank check from his previous employer, Alhaji Adekunle Moshood, the Lagos State Police Command has arraigned one Victor Williams before a Yaba Magistrates’ Court.
Williams was accused of taking more than N2 million out of the account and forging Moshood’s signature on the check.
On Thursday, April 20, Williams was charged with three counts of forgery and theft before Magistrate P. E. Nwaka.
According to Sections 411 and 287(1) of the Lagos State Criminal Code, which the police prosecutor, Thomas Nurudeen, informed the court the offense violated, it is criminal.
The charge read in part, “That you, Victor Williams, in February 2023 did unlawfully withdraw N500, 000 from the account of your ex-employer, Adekunle Moshood, in the Magodo area of the state over the counter and had subsequently transferred N2m into your account without the consent of the original owner of the account and thereby committed an offence punishable under Section 411 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State.”
The defendant, however, pleaded not guilty to the charges read to him in English.
Following his plea, Nwaka granted the defendant bail in the sum of N500,000 with two responsible sureties in like sum.
