The Lagos high court sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos state, has delivered judgment in favour of 27 aggrieved Nigerian investors/claimants who were scammed by a couple, Bamise and Elizabeth Ajetunmobi, who fled the country after duping them of N18.8 billion.
The presiding judge, Justice Toyin Oyekan-Abdullahi, on Thursday, July 14, ordered the defendants to pay the sum of N18.8 billion with interest.
At a previous proceeding, the court had earlier frozen funds and properties of the defendants worldwide as well as all monies standing to their credit, according to Channels TV.
The defendants in the suit are Imagine global holding company Ltd., Imagine global solutions ltd., and the Nigerian couple, Bamise and Elizabeth Ajetunmobi.
The two firms and the Ajetunmobi couple have been associated with an N18.8 billion investment fraud by some aggrieved Nigerian investors who filed the suit before the court.
According to the claimants, the sum is the outstanding investments and return on investments accruing to them from the defendants.
In reaching its judgment on Thursday, Justice Oyekan-Abdullahi, dismissed all the preliminary objections filed by the defendants, while the court exited Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) from the proceedings.
The court granted the reliefs sought by the first to seventeenth claimants’ counsel, Adetunji Adedoyin-Adeniyi, in the sum of N15.5 billion and the rest of the claimants’ represented by the law firm of Banwo and Ighodalo in the sum of N3.3 billion,…
