Kado Area Court in Abuja, docked Mr John Jang, a 29- year old businessman charged for allegedly swindling his employer of N3.8 million.
Mr Jang was charged with criminal breach of trust, theft and the spread of harmful information to mislead the people by the Nigerian police force.
The prosecution counsel, Stanley Nwafoaku, told the court that on December 22, 2022, at 8:48 pm, the plaintiff Mr Emmanuel Olusesi logged the complaint to Life camp police station.
He alleged that in 2021, Mr Olusesi had committed his business to the defendant, Mr Jang, as a manage.
However, in December 2022, when he conducted an internal audit on the accounts, the plaintiff claimed that N3,823,000 was missing from the business money.
Mr Nwafoaku said the defendant claimed to have been abducted during a police investigation, while the sum of N750,000 was recovered from him. All efforts to retrieve the remaining N3, 073, 000 from Jang proved abortive.
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According to Nwafoaku, the offence violates sections 314, 289 and 140 of the penal code law.
Upon arraignment, Mr Jang pleaded not guilty to the charges against him.
The defence counsel, Charity Nwosu, made a bail application for the defendant in the most liberal terms.
She cited sections 36 of the 1999 constitution and 158 of the Administration of the Criminal Justice Act (ACJA) 2015 for the bail application. She pledged that the defendant would not fail to appear in court during the trial.
The prosecution counsel did not object to the bail application; consequently, justice Mohammed Wakili granted the defendant bail in the sum of N1.5 million.
The judge ordered that the defendant provides one surety who must provide a BVN printout, a recent passport photograph and one court-verified identification card. The judge then adjourned the matter until February 22 for a hearing.