Olajide Kareem, otherwise known as Seun Egbegbe, the beset Lagos socialite known for his sumptuous way of life, has at last recovered opportunity subsequent to burning through 68 months in jail.
Mr Egbegbe, 44, was detained on 10 February 2017 for extortion including N39m; $90,000 and £12,550.
The police claimed that he falsely acquired the cash from no less than 40 Agency De Change administrators in Lagos from 2015 to 2017.
Mr Egbegbe, who once oversaw Fuji craftsmen Rib Ayinde Tekoma and Pasuma, was said to have duped the BDC administrators.
He had let them know he had naira to change into unfamiliar monetary standards as well as the other way around.
The past Lagos socialite argued not blameworthy and was remanded in jail care forthcoming when he would fulfill the prison terms as his companions, family, and partners abandoned him.
The charge sheet was in this way altered two times, with the counts ultimately expanded to 44 and three different respondents added – Lawal Kareem, Olalekan Yusuf and Muyideen Shoyombo.
The five respondents argued not blameworthy to the first and second counts while Kareem, the first litigant, argued not liable to the leftover 38 counts.
The preliminary started on 10 May 2017, with more than 30 BDC administrators raging the court to affirm against him.Free finally
The Government High Court in Lagos at first condemned him to seven years detainment ‘with difficult work’ for extortion.
Equity Oluremi Oguntoyinbo condemned Mr Kareem in the wake of sentencing him for one of the 44-count charges recorded against him by the police.
Equity Oguntoyinbo announced that 43 of the 44 counts disintegrated as a result of absence of observers to validate their cases.
She additionally found that the arraigning group bombed in the obligation to deliver proof, to be supported with observers in counts 4, 19 and 21.
The appointed authority likewise said that police altered the cash recuperated from the suspects and furthermore decided that they ought to get all the cash recuperated from Egbegbe once again to him.
In any case, on Tuesday, a Government High Court, Ikoyi in Lagos, viewed Mr Egbegbe to be liable of only one of the 44 counts charges as a detriment for him and set him free.
She likewise discredited that the arraigning group bombed in the obligation to create proof, to be upheld with observers on counts 4, 19 and 21.
The representative of the Lagos NCoS, Rotimi Oladokun, additionally affirmed his delivery in a meeting with PREMIUM TIMES on Wednesday.
The court keep going heard his case on November 2020.
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The police summoned the questionable figure in the Yoruba film industry for supposed extortion including N39 million, $90,000, and £12,550.
The police claimed that he falsely acquired the cash from no less than 40 Agency De Change administrators in Lagos from 2015 to 2017.
Sadly, the producer who funded the development of a few Yoruba films under his Dark Movies Creations engraving couldn’t satisfy the bail conditions over three years after the fact.
Egbegbe, whose pitched undertaking with Nollywood entertainer, Toyin Abraham, shot him into the spotlight a couple of years prior, had been deserted by his partners and protégés the same.