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The Supreme Court has ordered the immediate remand of Lagos-based businessman and socialite, Fred Ajudua, in connection with a $1.43 million fraud case dating back over three decades.

In a unanimous ruling delivered on Friday, the apex court overturned the decision of the Court of Appeal, which had earlier granted Ajudua bail. The court held that the appellate court erred in its judgment and directed that Ajudua be returned to correctional custody without delay.

POLITICS NIGERIA has learned that Ajudua is now in hiding following the court’s decision.

“Ajudua escaped after the Supreme Court ordered that he should be returned to prison,”, a source disclosed and its currently unclear if he is still in Nigeria.

The case, which has spanned more than 30 years, stems from allegations that Ajudua defrauded a German company of $1.43 million through an advance fee fraud scheme—commonly referred to as a “419” scam in Nigeria.

A letter dated August 26, 1993, from the Embassy of the State of Palestine accused Ajudua of obtaining the funds under false pretence from one Ziad Abu Zalaf, a Palestinian businessman based in . The funds were allegedly siphoned under the pretext of business transactions with Nigerian government agencies.

This newspaper gathered that Ajudua and his accomplice, Mr. Joseph Ochunor, fraudulently collected sums of $268,000 and $225,000 from Zalaf on April 2 and May 12, 1993, respectively. They forged official documents, including receipts from the Central Bank of Nigeria and the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, to make the transactions appear legitimate.

Following an extensive investigation, a 12-count charge was filed against Ajudua before the Lagos State High Court in Ikeja. Initially arraigned before Justice Josephine Oyefeso, the case was later reassigned to Justice Mojisola Dada following a refiling of charges.

Ajudua’s lawyer, Olalekan Ojo (SAN), later approached the Court of Appeal, where a led by Justice Mohammed Garba granted bail on the grounds of constitutional rights and allowed the businessman to continue under his existing bail .

However, In its decision on appeal number SC/CR/51/2019, the Supreme Court, through Justice Chioma Nwosu-Iheme, ruled that the Court of Appeal acted outside its jurisdiction by granting bail after striking out Ajudua’s brief of argument for incompetence. The apex court held that any judgment or relief stemming from such a defective brief was legally void.

The Supreme Court further ordered that trial resume before Justice Dada of the Lagos State High Court without further delay.

Source : https://politicsnigeria.com/breaking-fred-ajudua-on-the-run-after-supreme-court-orders-return-to-prison-orders/

wow

Maybe he is yet to APC. Assuming he is a strong member of the Criminal club, nobody will hear this case again.

APC and your sins will be forgiven..... Adams Osho
Former APC National Chairman

International oshi

Prison beans na your mate

Do the crime
Do the time

Let them smoke him out of his hiding place

🤭

Fred Ajudua, one of the most praised men in the 90s.


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Voom is better than statement

Lol

Dis one na agba yahoo... E fit Don spend dat money finish sef.... Now he doesn't have peace

No peace ✌️ for the wicked. Oh yes you can run but can't hide.

Humm....... Like the saying goes. Nothing last forever. If you can't do the term, then don't do the crime. Many of these guys were actually indulge in so many financial crimes. Including Ade Bendel (late)....and one will think the world is made for them only. Imagine now how their names had been tarnished and yet they can't even be measure up to guys that have money through a legitimate means now. It's so sad for him at his old age that his name is been dragged in the mud. What a shame? 🤔

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Pioneer and Oldest Yahoo boy of 80s and 90s when men were boys in the streets

Grew up with this G…boy and one Ade Bendel as Big Fraudsters

Wtf! Since 1993 Nigeria judiciary is a joke. Sentence the mvtherfvckr already corrupt niggers. He would have been done with his sentence already

30 good years...just to rule on bail appeal


This country sef

The godfather of 419

okomile:
Prison beans na your mate

Do the crime
Do the time

Let them smoke him out of his hiding place

Not just the daily eating of watery beans

Daily cutting of grass with cutlass

Sleeping on floors filled with urine etc etc

Guy has always been in the news for more than 25 years, all for commiting one atrocity to another.

He should better run and APC

Oga APC and be free!

Big boys of the 90s..

When Yahoo was called 419

Money he would have finished..

Dey play

Na wa

TooMuchStuff:
Pioneer and Oldest Yahoo boy of 80s and 90s when men were boys in the streets

Grew up with this G…boy and one Ade Bendel as Big Fraudsters

Correct G man...

Nigerians get evil mind.

ntyce:
Guy has always been in the news for more than 25 years, all for commiting one atrocity to another.

Just checked again.his yahoo 419 atrocities are so much, even after serving an initial years imprisonment 2000. He commited fresh wire frauds of million dollars as soon as he came out
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Ajudua

He did not run away, he's only running to APC.

He’s on the run because he knows people who trafficked heroin in Chicago and transitioned to corrupt politicians. He probably wonders why his case is different.