Embattled Nollywood filmmaker, Olajide Kazeem, better known as Seun Egbegbe, will appear before the Federal High court in Lagos on Monday after 20 months in prison custody.

Egbegbe had failed to meet the N5m bail granted him by the Federal High Court and had remained behind the walls of the prison for over a year now.

The filmmaker who had once dated ace actress, Toyin Abraham has been kept away since February 10, 2017 after being accused of defrauding at least 40 Bureau de change operators over a period of two years (2015 to 2017).

He was said to have allegedly swindled the BDC operators by falsely representing to them that he had naira to change into foreign currencies and vice versa.

Egbegbe, alongside one Oyekan Ayomide, was first arraigned on February 10, 2017 before Justice Oluremi Oguntoyinbo, on 36 counts bordering on advance fee fraud.

The charge sheet was subsequently amended twice, with the counts eventually increased to 40 and three other defendants – Lawal Kareem, Olalekan Yusuf and Muyideen Shoyombo – added.

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The prosecuting counsel for the police, Innocent Anyigor, said Egbegbe and the other defendants acted contrary to Section 8 of the Advance Fee Fraud and Other Related Offences Act 2006 and were liable to be punished under Section 1(3) of the same Act.

The police prosecutor, Anyigor, had told the court that he had no fewer than 40 witnesses, including the BDC operators, who would testify against Egbegbe and his co-defendants in court.

On March 10, 2017, over 30 BDC operators stormed the court for the trial.

So far, the prosecution has called four witnesses.

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