Actress Oluwadarasimi Omoseyin aka Simisola Gold has been remanded in Kirikiri prison by a Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos.
The 31-year-old was remanded on Monday, February 13, pending the determination of her bail application, for tamp£ring with the Naira notes.
She was arraigned before Justice Chukwujekwu Aneke on a two-count charge by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).
One of the count reads, “that you Oluwadarasimi Omoseyin on the 28th day of January, 2023 at Monarch event center, Lekki within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court whilst dancing during a social occasion tampered with the sum of N100, 000.00 issued by the Central Bank of Nigeria by spraying same in the said occasion and you thereby committed an offence contrary to and p¥nishable under section 21 (1) of the Central Bank Act, 2007.”
The second reads, “that you Oluwadarasimi Omoseyin on the 28th day of January, 2023 at Monarch event center, Lekki within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court whilst dancing during a social occasion tampered with the sum of N100, 000.00 issued by the Central Bank of Nigeria by dancing on same in the said occasion and you thereby committed an offence contrary to and p¥nishable under section 21 (1) of the Central Bank Act, 2007.”
She pleaded not guilty to the offence. And in view of her plea, the prosecution counsel, S.I Sulaiman, asked the court for a trial date and prayed that the defendant be remanded in the appropriate correctional facility.
Justice Aneke deferred ruling on the bail application to Wednesday, February 15, 2023 and remanded the defendant in Kirikiri correctional facility.
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