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Alleged $1.3M Fraud: Zaura Loses Bid To Stop Trial
Alleged $1.3M Fraud: Zaura Loses Bid To Stop Trial
The All Progressives Congress, APC senatorial candidate for Kano Central, Abdulsalam Sale Abdulkarim aka A.A Zaura has lost his bid to stop his corruption trial as the Supreme Court on Thursday November 24, 2022 struck out his two applications to stop the Federal High Court, Kano, from trying him.
In dismissing the applications, the apex court further directed the APC senatorial candidate to appear before the Federal High Court Kano to face the charges preferred against him by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission.
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Zaura is being accused by the Commission for defrauding a Kuwaiti Citizen of the sum of $1,320,000 (One Million Three Hundred and Twenty Thousand Dollars) under the pretext that he is in the business of building properties in Dubai, Kuwait and other Arab countries.
On the 9th June 2020, Justice A.L Allagoa dismissed the charges against Zauro. But dissatisfied at the ruling, the prosecution proceeded to the Appellate Court in Kano. The Appeal Court in a unanimous decision by a three man panel, delivered by Justice Abdullahi M. Bayero, set aside the judgment of the Federal High Court and ordered that the defendant be tried afresh by a different judge.
The case was subsequently assigned to Justice Mohammed Nasir Yunusa for retrial and arraignment fixed for 31st of October, 2022.
But since then Zaura has been playing hide and seek by refusing to appear before the court on three occasions.
Instead of appearing for arraignment, he headed for the apex court with two applications, one seeking for interim injunction and the other for an interlocutory injunction to restrain the Federal High Court Kano from taking any step in the case pending the hearing of his appeal at the Supreme Court.
However, when the matter was mentioned on Thursday, the five-man panel of justices led by Justice Inyang Okoro ruled that the Supreme Court has no power under the law to stay proceedings in a criminal matter. The court advised the applicant to withdraw the applications. Both applications were withdrawn and the same struck out, with no objection from the respondent’s counse, l Musa Isah.
Alleged $1.3M Fraud: Zaura Loses Bid To Stop Trial
South Korean court acquits ex-Supreme Court chief justice of 47 charges
A South Korean court on Friday acquitted former Supreme Court Chief Justice, Yang Sung-tae, of all 47 charges related to his alleged abuse of judiciary power.
This includes allegations he unfairly influenced politically sensitive trials under ousted former President Park Geun-hye.
The Seoul Central District Court also acquitted two other former Supreme Court justices, Park Byong-dae and Ko Young-han, who were indicted in the same case.
“I express my respect for the court, which ruled clearly on an obvious case,” Yang said as he left the court after the ruling.
Yang, who headed the top court from 2011 to 2017, was accused of having used trials as bargaining chips in dealings with the Park administration to promote his bid to establish a court of appeals.
He was also suspected of having pressed subordinates at the National Court Administration, the top court’s governing body, to devise plans to influence politically sensitive trials for Park.
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It included a compensation suit pursued by victims of Japan’s wartime forced labour.
Prosecutors had demanded prison terms of seven years for Yang, five years for Park and four years for Ko.
The court said most of the charges against some of Yang’s subordinates, including those of abuse of power, could not be proven, and even if they were found partially guilty.
The evidence submitted by the prosecution was insufficient to prove Yang colluded with them.
The former chief justice was indicted under arrest in February 2019 over his suspected role in the power abuse scandal.
He was released on bail in July that year following 179 days of detention.
The sentencing hearing lasted an unusually long four and half hours, due to the vast number of charges involved, and was even adjourned for a 10-minute break.
The Seoul Central District Prosecutors Office said it planned to thoroughly study the details of the ruling before deciding whether to appeal.
Yang was the first chief justice ever to have been arrested as a criminal suspect.
South Korean court acquits ex-Supreme Court chief justice of 47 charges
Court convicts Lagos bishop of raping assistant pastor
An Ikeja Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court on Friday convicted a Lagos bishop, Oluwafeyiropo Daniels, of raping his 23-year-old assistant (name withheld).
Justice Rahman Oshodi found Daniels, the Bishop of I Reign Christian Ministry, guilty of count one of a rape charge preferred against him by Lagos State Government.
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Oshodi held that prosecution established the ingredients of the offence.
According to him, Daniels is a liar and does not have any regard for truth.
The judge, however, discharged and acquitted him on the count two of the charge, which is rape of another member of the church (name withheld).
Oshodi held that there was an element of consent from the church member.
The reports gathered that the judgment was still ongoing as at the time of this report.
Daniels faced an amended four-count charge bordering on rape, attempted rape and sexual assault.
Court convicts Lagos bishop of raping assistant pastor
Court orders arrest of mother of twins for contempt
A Shari’a Court in Kaduna, on Monday ordered the arrest of Sadiya Aliyu, a mother of twins for disobeying a court order.Aliyu failed to present her children in court as instructed by the Shari’a court.The judge, Malam Anass Khalifa, had ordered Aliyu to present the children in court for their father to see them.
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He gave the order after Aliyu’s Lawyer, Hassan Sulaiman, raised a preliminary objection that the court had no jurisdiction to entertain the child custody case.
Sulaiman told the court that he wasn’t aware that a copy of appeal was not submitted as well as the reason why the complainant refused to present the children in court as ordered during the last haering.
Earlier, the defendant, Umar Sulaiman, who is an ex husband to the complainant told the court that he had not been given access to his children for a year.
The reports gathered that in 2022, court had granted Aliyu custody of two children aged three with the condition that they spend Sallah holidays with their father.
The court had also ordered that the father should be allowed to see his children when the need arise, an order which the complainant disobeyed.
Court orders arrest of mother of twins for contempt
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