The Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Sunsteel Industries Limited, Olalekan Adewoye, has been arraigned on a two-count charge, bordering on stealing and obtaining property by false pretence to the tune of $680,622.65 before Justice Mojisola Dada of the Lagos State High Court.
Adewoye was arraigned alongside his companies, Sunlek Investments Limited and Sunsteel Industries Limited by the Lagos Zonal Directorate 2 of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, for the alleged fraud, Dele Oyewale Head, Media & Publicity of the anti-graft agency said in a statement.
One of the charges reads: “That you, Olalekan Adewoye, Sunlek Investments Limited and Sunsteel Industries Limited, sometime between 2013 and 2014 in Lagos, within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court, with a dishonest intent, stole and converted, for your own use, the aggregate sum of $680,622.65 (Six Hundred and Eighty Thousand, Six Hundred and Twenty- two Dollars Sixty-five Cents), property of Hexagon Im-und Export GmbH & Co KG, a German Company, being the value of construction materials supplied to you, and you thereby committed an offence, to wit, obtaining property by false pretence, contrary to and punishable under Section 1(1), (2) and (3) of the Advance Fee Fraud and other Fraud Related Offences Act No. 14 of 2006.”
He pleaded “not guilty” to the charges when they were read to him, following which the prosecution counsel, Abdulhamid L. Tukur, applied for a trial date and asked that the defendant be remanded in a correctional centre, while defence counsel, Olusegun O. Jolaawo SAN, informed the court of a pending bail application and further prayed the court to admit the defendant to bail, stating that “has never jumped the administrative bail granted him by the EFCC.”
Justice Dada ordered that the defendant should continue to enjoy the administrative bail earlier granted him by the EFCC and that he should deposit his passport and documents of two landed properties with the court’s registry.
The judge adjourned the case till June 3 and 19, June 2025 for commencement of trial.
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