{"id":146815,"date":"2025-01-20T10:58:41","date_gmt":"2025-01-20T09:58:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/alleged-n12-3bn-fraud-otudekos-counsel-protests-in-court"},"modified":"2025-01-29T22:59:25","modified_gmt":"2025-01-29T21:59:25","slug":"alleged-n12-3bn-fraud-otudekos-counsel-protests-in-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/alleged-n12-3bn-fraud-otudekos-counsel-protests-in-court","title":{"rendered":"Alleged N12.3bn fraud: Otudeko\u2019s counsel protests in court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>Bode Olanipekun, counsel to the Chairman of Honeywell Group, Oba Otudeko, who was charged with N12.3 billion fraud, on Monday, appeared before a Federal High Court in Lagos in protest of the charge.<\/p>\n<p>The News Agency of Nigeria, NAN, reports that Olanipekun, who is the Counsel to the three defendants charged alongside Otudeko, told the court he was protesting the charges because they had not been served on his clients.<\/p>\n<p>The 13-count charge was preferred by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, against Otudeko, a former Managing Director of First Bank Plc, Olabisi Onasanya; and a former board member of Honeywell, Soji Akintayo.<\/p>\n<p>They were charged alongside a firm, Anchorage Leisure Ltd.<\/p>\n<p>The EFCC alleged that the defendants obtained the sum under false pretences.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Nigeria<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. Bode Olanipekun, counsel to the Chairman of Honeywell Group, Oba Otudeko, who was charged with N12.3 billion fraud, on Monday, appeared before a Federal High Court in Lagos in protest of the charge. The News Agency of Nigeria, NAN, reports that Olanipekun, who is the Counsel to the three defendants charged alongside [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":146814,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[69,254,15570],"class_list":["post-146815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-court","tag-nigeria","tag-otudeko"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Alleged N12.3bn fraud: Otudeko\u2019s counsel protests in court - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Bode Olanipekun, counsel to the Chairman of Honeywell Group, Oba Otudeko, who was charged with N12.3 billion fraud, on M ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/alleged-n12-3bn-fraud-otudekos-counsel-protests-in-court\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Alleged N12.3bn fraud: Otudeko\u2019s counsel protests in court\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Bode Olanipekun, counsel to the Chairman of Honeywell Group, Oba Otudeko, who was charged with N12.3 billion fraud, on M ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/alleged-n12-3bn-fraud-otudekos-counsel-protests-in-court\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-01-20T09:58:41+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-01-29T21:59:25+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/01\/sm_1737358254.0659.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"411\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/alleged-n12-3bn-fraud-otudekos-counsel-protests-in-court#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/alleged-n12-3bn-fraud-otudekos-counsel-protests-in-court\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Alleged N12.3bn fraud: Otudeko\u2019s counsel protests in court\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-01-20T09:58:41+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-01-29T21:59:25+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/alleged-n12-3bn-fraud-otudekos-counsel-protests-in-court\"},\"wordCount\":147,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/alleged-n12-3bn-fraud-otudekos-counsel-protests-in-court#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/01\/sm_1737358254.0659.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"court\",\"Nigeria\",\"Otudeko\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/alleged-n12-3bn-fraud-otudekos-counsel-protests-in-court#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/alleged-n12-3bn-fraud-otudekos-counsel-protests-in-court\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/alleged-n12-3bn-fraud-otudekos-counsel-protests-in-court\",\"name\":\"Alleged N12.3bn fraud: Otudeko\u2019s counsel protests in court - Nigeria\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/alleged-n12-3bn-fraud-otudekos-counsel-protests-in-court#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/alleged-n12-3bn-fraud-otudekos-counsel-protests-in-court#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/01\/sm_1737358254.0659.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-01-20T09:58:41+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-01-29T21:59:25+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"description\":\"Bode Olanipekun, counsel to the Chairman of Honeywell Group, Oba Otudeko, who was charged with N12.3 billion fraud, on M ...\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/alleged-n12-3bn-fraud-otudekos-counsel-protests-in-court#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/alleged-n12-3bn-fraud-otudekos-counsel-protests-in-court\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/alleged-n12-3bn-fraud-otudekos-counsel-protests-in-court#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/01\/sm_1737358254.0659.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/01\/sm_1737358254.0659.jpg\",\"width\":720,\"height\":411,\"caption\":\"Alleged N12.3bn fraud: Otudeko\u2019s counsel protests in court\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/alleged-n12-3bn-fraud-otudekos-counsel-protests-in-court#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Alleged N12.3bn fraud: Otudeko\u2019s counsel protests in court\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/\",\"name\":\"Africa Press | Nigeria | Homepage\",\"description\":\"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\",\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/author\/cfeditoren\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Alleged N12.3bn fraud: Otudeko\u2019s counsel protests in court - Nigeria","description":"Bode Olanipekun, counsel to the Chairman of Honeywell Group, Oba Otudeko, who was charged with N12.3 billion fraud, on M ...","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/alleged-n12-3bn-fraud-otudekos-counsel-protests-in-court","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Alleged N12.3bn fraud: Otudeko\u2019s counsel protests in court","og_description":"Bode Olanipekun, counsel to the Chairman of Honeywell Group, Oba Otudeko, who was charged with N12.3 billion fraud, on M ...","og_url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/alleged-n12-3bn-fraud-otudekos-counsel-protests-in-court","og_site_name":"Nigeria","article_published_time":"2025-01-20T09:58:41+00:00","article_modified_time":"2025-01-29T21:59:25+00:00","og_image":[{"width":720,"height":411,"url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/01\/sm_1737358254.0659.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"cfeditoren","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"cfeditoren","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/alleged-n12-3bn-fraud-otudekos-counsel-protests-in-court#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/alleged-n12-3bn-fraud-otudekos-counsel-protests-in-court"},"author":{"name":"cfeditoren","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"headline":"Alleged N12.3bn fraud: Otudeko\u2019s counsel protests in court","datePublished":"2025-01-20T09:58:41+00:00","dateModified":"2025-01-29T21:59:25+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/alleged-n12-3bn-fraud-otudekos-counsel-protests-in-court"},"wordCount":147,"commentCount":0,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/alleged-n12-3bn-fraud-otudekos-counsel-protests-in-court#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/01\/sm_1737358254.0659.jpg","keywords":["court","Nigeria","Otudeko"],"articleSection":["all news","Policy"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/alleged-n12-3bn-fraud-otudekos-counsel-protests-in-court#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/alleged-n12-3bn-fraud-otudekos-counsel-protests-in-court","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/alleged-n12-3bn-fraud-otudekos-counsel-protests-in-court","name":"Alleged N12.3bn fraud: Otudeko\u2019s counsel protests in court - Nigeria","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/alleged-n12-3bn-fraud-otudekos-counsel-protests-in-court#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/alleged-n12-3bn-fraud-otudekos-counsel-protests-in-court#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/01\/sm_1737358254.0659.jpg","datePublished":"2025-01-20T09:58:41+00:00","dateModified":"2025-01-29T21:59:25+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"description":"Bode Olanipekun, counsel to the Chairman of Honeywell Group, Oba Otudeko, who was charged with N12.3 billion fraud, on M ...","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/alleged-n12-3bn-fraud-otudekos-counsel-protests-in-court#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/alleged-n12-3bn-fraud-otudekos-counsel-protests-in-court"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/alleged-n12-3bn-fraud-otudekos-counsel-protests-in-court#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/01\/sm_1737358254.0659.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/01\/sm_1737358254.0659.jpg","width":720,"height":411,"caption":"Alleged N12.3bn fraud: Otudeko\u2019s counsel protests in court"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/alleged-n12-3bn-fraud-otudekos-counsel-protests-in-court#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Alleged N12.3bn fraud: Otudeko\u2019s counsel protests in court"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/","name":"Africa Press | Nigeria | Homepage","description":"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb","name":"cfeditoren","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/author\/cfeditoren"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146815\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/146814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}