Following an urgent petition by a real estate company, INTERPOL has commenced an investigation and frozen the assets of one Odupaye Abimbola Joseph on grounds of alleged fraud.
Odupaye Abimbola Joseph and her company, Tigers Property LLC have been charged before a Nassarawa Chief Magistrate for allegedly obtaining N457 million under pretenses.
Other respondents in suit number M/185/2024 were United Bank For Africa (UBA), Guaranteed Trust Bank, Polaris Bank, Access Bank, Eco Bank, Wema Bank, Fidelity Bank, Abbey Mortgage Bank, First Bank and Toluwani Gideon Olisa.
The petitioner, through his counsel, Mr. David Njoku, said that the real estate company paid the sum of N467 million to Joseph and her company for the purchase of four (one-bedroom units) of what they claimed to be their Regina Tower Project in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
Njoku submitted that his client brought a total number of five investors who signified interest in the purchase of the purported property and committed the total sum of N467 million and 300,500 US dollars to Joseph’s account.
The lawyer said that his client, having parted with the huge sum, was unable to obtain the property paid for, and Joseph was still at large with the investors’ fund.
“It is our humble view that our client, alongside the investors, has been defrauded by Abimbola Joseph and Tigers Property LLC.
“Many other innocent citizens will be subjected to the same if the matter is not urgently addressed,” he said.
Chief Magistrate Abdulsalam Abubakar on Jan.19 ordered that upon the motion ex-parte moved by one Mr. Aminu Abubakar and upon the affidavit deposed to by ASP Ajulo Raphael of (Interpol) Force CID Annex Lagos, Fidelity Bank, First Bank, Eco Bank, Polaris Bank, Wema Bank, Abbey Mortgage Bank, Access Bank, Guaranteed Trust Bank and UBA should furnish the commissioner of police (interpol)of the account details of Toluwani Gideon Olisa and Odupaye Abimbola Joseph.
