Alleged N152m property fraud: Court admits offer letter as evidence

An connection missive dated February 5, 2024 has been admitted into grounds successful the ongoing proceedings involving spot developer, Olukayode Olusanya, and his company, Oak Homes Limited.

Olusanya is being tried earlier a Lagos Federal High Court implicit an alleged N152 cardinal spot fraud.

Justice Musa Kakaki admitted the missive arsenic grounds successful a ruling connected Thursday. The judge, however, rejected 3 different documents dated January 10, January 11, 2024 and December 15, 2024, holding that they were photocopies and had not been decently explained by the witnesser who sought to tender them.

The ruling followed objections raised during the erstwhile proceedings connected July 20, 2026, erstwhile the prosecution sought to tender them done the nominal complainant, Anthony Ugbebor.

In his ruling, Justice Kakaki said the witnesser had failed to explicate the whereabouts of the archetypal copies of the 3 rejected documents.

On the February 5, 2024 connection letter, the justice rejected the objection that Ugbebor was not the shaper of the document.

“One of the grounds of the objections of January 10, January 11, and December 15, 2024, was that the documents are photocopies. On July 20, 2026, the witness, done whom the documents were to beryllium tendered, did not springiness immoderate mentation of wherever the archetypal documents were.

“I besides considered the submissio...