Police detain, interrogate Sujimoto’s GMD Ogundele over alleged $325,000 fraud

Operatives of the Force Criminal Investigations Department (FCID) of the Nigerian police in Abuja have arrested the Group Managing Director, Sujimoto Holdings, Olasijibomi Ogundele, over an alleged fraud involving $325,000 he received from a client.

The FCID launched an investigation into how Mr Ogundele’s real estate firm, Sujimoto Construction Limited, received $325,000 from a client for a real estate deal since November 2020 and failed to deliver on the project or refund the money, PREMIUM TIMES learned.

The probe followed a petition to the Deputy Inspector-General of Police in charge of criminal investigations by a lawyer, Pelumi Olajengbesi of Law Corridor, a copy of which this newspaper obtained on Thursday.