EPL/NIGERIA:Osaze defrauded N22 million

16 Apr 2014 19:29:27
Sammy Wejinya
Lifestyle consultant Claire
Duke stole more than £80
000 (about N22 million) from
Nigeria international striker
Peter Odemwingie, former
West Bromwich Albion manager Tony
Mowbray and former Liverpool player Andre
Wisdom in a desperate bid to avoid going
bankrupt.
The 30-year-old Duke pocketed money given
to her by three of her clients it was revealed
at Stafford Crown where she also admitted
seven counts of fraud and was given a two-
year jail term suspended for two years.
Duke cashed in on the wedding of
Odemwingie by duping him into paying twice
for his luxury £7 000 Venice honeymoon.
Respected British newspaper, the Daily Mail
reported how Odemwingie unwittingly picked
up the bill for a £15 000 break in the
Caribbean enjoyed by Liverpool player Andre
Wisdom.
Odemwingie was still on the books of West
Brom when he asked lifestyle consultant
Duke to arrange £7 000 worth of flights to
Miami in April 2012 and gave her his credit
card details to pay for them.
The previous month his future mother-in-
law, Mrs Tracy Fallon, had given Duke £7
560 to cover her daughter’s honeymoon to
Venice but the lifestyle consultant pocketed
the cash.
Duke collected a total of £82 561 from six
people between April 2012 and July last year
although the overall loss was £64 974 since
some of the stolen money was used to pay
the costs of other clients as she juggled the
books to cover up the racket, it was said.
Duke from Farm Crescent, St Albans, was
also given 150 hours unpaid work.
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