A Grade 1 Area Court, Kado, Abuja, on Thursday sentenced one Victor Chaiha to seven months’ imprisonment for criminal breach of trust and cheating.
The presiding judge, Alhaji Ahmed Ado, however, gave him an option to pay N9,000 fine.
Ado also ordered him to refund the sum of N190,000 to the complainant within two weeks, with an advice to be a decent businessman.
The convict, who resides at Angwan Shaho Karmo, Abuja, was convicted of the two-count charge
against him.
Earlier, the prosecutor, Zannah Dalhatu, told the court that one Jonathan James of Karmo village, reported the matter at the Karmo Police Station on March 15.
Dalhatu said that the complainant, on March 6, entrusted the convict with the sum of N190,000 to deposit into his (complainant) Diamond Bank account at Wuse Zone 5 Abuja.
He said that the convict fraudulently converted the money to his personal use and that all efforts to recover the money had proved abortive.
During police investigation, the convict confessed to have committed the said crime.
Before being sentenced, the convict prayed the court to temper justice with mercy, saying that the money got missing.
The prosecutor said that the offence was punishable under Sections 312 and 322 of the Penal Code.