Man, 36, In Police Net For Swindling Lagos Lawyer N1m 

CYRIACUS IZUEKWE 

It was a nasty experience for a Lagos based legal practitioner, Barrister Fadipe Ayoyinka, who engaged one Bello Desmond as his personal assistant, he swindled him N1m and bolted away. 

P.M.EXPRESS reports that Barrister Ayoyinka sent Desmond to a house at Olaniyi Street, Idioro, Mushin, to collect house rent from his tenant where he manages a property. 

The suspect, Desmond, went to the tenant, collected the money and from there, he bolted away with the money and disconnected every communication he had with the lawyer. 

After the lawyer had waited in vain, he tried to contact Desmond and he was unable to do so. It was then it became clear to him that the suspect has absconded with the money.

The matter was reported to the Police. He was trailed, eventually arrested and detained at the station for interrogation over his conduct. 
During interrogation, he was said to have admitted to have collected the money from the tenant and the Police asked him to refund the money. At that point, he told the Police that he had spent the money and had no place to get the money from. 

The Police found his conduct culpable and subsequently charged him before the Ogba Magistrates Court for criminal diversion of the money. 

When he was arraigned, he pleaded not guilty. 

The prosecutor, Inspector Okeh Chekwube, asked the Court to give a date for hearing since he pleaded not guilty to enable the Police to prove that he actually committed the alleged offence. 

The Presiding Magistrate, Mr. O.A. Odubayo, granted him bail in the sum of N100,000 with one surety in like sum. 

He was remanded in the Correctional Centre at Kirikiri town, Lagos, pending when he will perfect his bail conditions while the matter was adjourned till 1st June, 2022, for mention.