The Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC), Kano Zonal office on March 12, 2020 arraigned Auwal Sidi Shariff and Danladi Nuhu before Justice Lewis Allagoa of the Federal High Court, Kano State on a four-count charge bordering on obtaining money under false pretence.
Shariff allegedly defrauded his victim in a land scam. He claimed that he had a plot of land for sale located at Unity Estate off Airport Road, Kano State. The petitioner negotiated with him to buy the plot of land on Plot No 196 for N3,555,000.
Afterwards, the suspect approached him again that there were two more plots up for sale. Again they negotiated and agreed for the sum of N2,500,000 for Plot No 276 and N3million for Plot No 15.
The payment was made to the defendant, but the land documents given to the buyer, turned out to have been forged as they never emanated from the Ministry of Land in the state.