Alleged N740m investment scam: How couple defrauded me – Witness
The First Prosecution Witness, PW1, Chinyere Okoroafor, in the trial of the Chief Executive Officer of Onome Global Market Resources Limited and Lexicon Multi-concept Media Limited, Osabohein Alex Ologbose and his wife, Hope Onome Oghelemu, before Justice Ekerete Akpan of the Federal High Court, Abuja, on Monday, June 22, 2026, narrated how she was defrauded by the couple in an investment scam.
The defendants, alongside their two companies, Onome Global Market Resources Limited and Lexicon Multi-concept Media Limited are being prosecuted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC on a seven-count charge, bordering on obtaining by false pretence, conversion of funds and money laundering to the tune of N740 million (Seven Hundred and Forty Million Naira), contrary to Section 18(2)(b) of the Money Laundering Prevention and Prohibition Act 2022 and punishment under Section 18(4) of the same Act.