Ibrahim Dabai, a jeweller, has been found guilty at the Federal High Court in Kano State before Judge M.N. Yunusa thanks to the anti-corruption organisation Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Kaduna Zonal Command.
On a charge that implied tampering with Nigerian cash, Dabai was found guilty.
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency detained him on the Abuja-Kaduna Expressway with coins that he claimed to use to make jewellery for sale, and he was then turned over to the EFCC for additional investigation.
Part of the charge reads, “That you, Ibrahim Musa Dabai, voluntarily engaged in tampering with Nigerian currency to with coins issued by the Central Bank of Nigeria when you used same to produce jewellery for commercial purpose and thereby committed an offence contrary to and punishable under Section 21 (1) of the Central Bank of Nigeria Act, 2007” in Kano, within the jurisdiction of the Federal High Court.
To the accusation against him, he entered a guilty plea.
In court, N. Salele, the prosecutor for the EFCC, requested the judge to find the defendant guilty as a result.
The defendant was found guilty by Justice Yunusa, who also handed down a sentence of three months in jail or a N30,000 fine.
He said that the Central Bank of Nigeria would receive and destroy the disfigured cash.
