The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Lagos Zonal office, on Tuesday, April 30, 2019 arraigned one Mathew Anagor (a.k.a Tony Wood) before Justice Mojisola Dada of the Special Offences Court sitting in Ikeja, Lagos on a six-count charge bordering on conspiracy, obtaining money under false pretence, impersonation and forgery.
One of the counts reads: “That you, Mathew Anagor (a.k.a Tony Wood), on or about December 17, 2011, in Lagos within the Lagos Judicial Division, attempted to obtain the sum of $350 (Three Hundred and Fifty Thousand United States Dollars) from Ina Brebnor by falsely pretending to her that you are Tony Wood, a Director of the African Development Bank, which pretence you knew to be false, thereby committing an offence contrary to Section 8(b) of the Advance Fee Fraud and Other Fraud Related Offences Act 2006.”
The defendant Mathew Anagor pleaded not guilty to the charge preferred against him.
In view of the plea by Mathew Anagor, the prosecution counsel, Ebareotu Pereagbe, asked the court for a trial date and prayed that the defendant be remanded in prison custody.
Justice Dada adjourned the case to May 9, 2019, for the hearing of the bail application and June 3, 2019, for the commencement of trial.
The Judge also ordered the suspect to be remanded in prison custody pending the hearing of the bail application.