“Fraud in the Fields: Man Charged with N25.6 Million Beans Scam in Maiduguri”
The Maiduguri Zonal Directorate of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission EFCC, has arraigned an individual, Mohammed Abdullahi Korimi, at the Borno State High Court in Maiduguri over an alleged fraud amounting to N25.6 million concerning 400 bags of beans.
A declaration by the EFCC indicated that Korimi appeared before Justice Aisha Kumaliya of the Borno State High Court in Maiduguri on Thursday, April 16, 2026, where he was confronted with a two-count accusation of criminal misappropriation and deceitful acquisition.
As per the EFCC, the defendant purportedly swindled his victim of N25,647,000.00 under the pretext of a business engagement.
One of the accusations stated, “That you, Mohammed Abdullahi Korimi on or about July, 2025 in Maiduguri, Borno State within the jurisdiction of this esteemed court, with the intention to defraud obtained 400 (Four Hundred) bags of beans valued at the sum of N25,647,000.00 (Twenty Five Million, Six Hundred and Forty-Seven Thousand Naira) from one Maina Hassan Madube, under the false pretense that you would deliver the same to your clients at Sango-Ota, Ogun State and make payment for it within one (1) week, a claim which you understood to be untrue and thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 1(1) and punishable under Section 1(3) of the Advance Fee Fraud and other Fraud related offences Act, 2006.”
Upon the reading of the charges in court, the defendant entered a plea of not guilty.
In light of his plea, prosecution counsel, S.O. Saka, requested the court to schedule a date for the hearing and also sought that the defendant be detained in a correctional facility pending subsequent proceedings.
Justice Kumaliya consequently adjourned the matter until April 22, 2026, for the hearing of the bail application and mandated that the defendant be held at the Maiduguri Maximum Correctional Facility.
The case, according to the EFCC, stemmed from an alleged transaction in which the defendant secured 400 bags of beans valued at N25,647,000 for delivery to a customer in Sango-Ota, Ogun State, but failed to honour the contract.
