{"id":191961,"date":"2025-02-21T15:00:50","date_gmt":"2025-02-21T13:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-efcc-arraigns-lawyer-for-allegedly-defrauding-victims-of-n1-3bn-in-uyo\/"},"modified":"2025-02-21T15:00:50","modified_gmt":"2025-02-21T13:00:50","slug":"nigeria-efcc-arraigns-lawyer-for-allegedly-defrauding-victims-of-n1-3bn-in-uyo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-efcc-arraigns-lawyer-for-allegedly-defrauding-victims-of-n1-3bn-in-uyo\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: EFCC Arraigns Lawyer for Allegedly Defrauding Victims of N1.3bn in Uyo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">Uyo \u2014 The Uyo Zonal Directorate of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arraigned a lawyer, Alexander Ozougwu, before the Federal High Court in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State, for allegedly defrauding his victims of N1.323 billion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"38\">The EFCC&#8217;s Head of Media &amp; Publicity, Mr. Dele Oyewale, in a statement released to newsmen in Uyo, noted that Ozougwu allegedly committed an offence punishable under Section 18(3) of the Money Laundering (Prevention and Prohibition) Act 2022.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"70\">According to&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202502210333.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Nigeria\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/nigeria\/\">Nigeria<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Uyo \u2014 The Uyo Zonal Directorate of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arraigned a lawyer, Alexander Ozougwu, before the Federal High Court in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State, for allegedly defrauding his victims of N1.323 billion. The EFCC&#8217;s Head of Media &amp; Publicity, Mr. Dele Oyewale, in a statement released to newsmen in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":191962,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[258,256,5128,10182,10902,11129,8000,46673,257,4687,393,254,10197,8402],"class_list":["post-191961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-allegedly","tag-arraigns","tag-defrauding","tag-efcc","tag-lawyer","tag-n1-3bn","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-uyo","tag-victims"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191961\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/191962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}