The Economic and Financial Crime Commission, EFCC, today April 15, 2014, arraigned one Dr George Odabi along with his company, Deo Gratias International School Limited, Abuja before Justice Peter Kekemeke of the Federal Capital Territory High Court, Abuja on a 3- count charge bordering on issuance of dud cheque and breach of trust. The accused, who is the managing director of Deo Gratias International School Limited Abuja, is said to have sometime in September, 2013 received a forty million, one hundred thousand naira (N40, 100,000.00) loan from one Mrs. Egbunola Ogungbesan for the renovation of his school but reneged on…
Author: Kunle Edun
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Tuesday April 15, 2014, arraigned one Adagun Moshood Olalekan before Justice O. A Taiwo of the Lagos High Court, Igbosere, on a 17-count charge bordering on obtaining money by false pretence and possession of fraudulent documents. Olalekan pleaded not guilty to the charges. In view of the plea of the defendant, the prosecuting counsel, Rotimi Oyedepo told the court that the prosecution had its first witness in court and was ready to commence trial. But the defence counsel, L. O. Balogun told the court that the defendant had already filed an application…
Executive Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Ibrahim Lamorde today disclosed that the Commission has recovered N4.3billion from suspects involved in the petroleum subsidy scam. He made the disclosure Tuesday April 15 when the management of the Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory Agency led by its Executive Secretary, Mr. Farouk Ahmed paid him a courtesy visit in his office in Abuja.The EFCC boss said the collaboration between the two agencies was pivotal to the Commission instituting court cases against 13 oil marketers indicted in the investigations in the subsidy regime. He called for a sustained partnership between the…
Further hearing in the N25.7billion theft charge preferred against former managing director of Bank PHB, Mr Fancis Atuche, his wife, Elizabeth and Ugo Anyanwu, by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC was today ( April 15, 2014) stalled at the Lagos High Court, Ikeja following the absence of key defence witness, who is said to be a handwriting expert. Counsel to the EFCC, Kemi Pinheiro SAN, reminded the court of several adjournments in the past to accommodate the absence of the same witness. “The absence of this witness does not stop the defence from calling other witnesses. The court…
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission EFCC today told a Lagos High Court sitting in Ikeja that Fidelis Ogbechie, defence witness in the on-going trial of former managing director of defunct Bank PHB, Francis Atuche was not a witness of truth as his claim that that his employers, ICON Stockbrokers Limited was lead Stockbroker to Bank PHB is false. At the resumed hearing of the case Monday, April 14, prosecuting counsel Kemi Pinheiro SAN told the court that “the claim by the second defence witness that his employers, ICON Stockbrokers Limited, was the lead stockbroker or Joint-lead stockbroker was purely…
Justice U.N Agomoh of the Federal High Court, Port Harcourt on April 14, 2014 convicted and sentenced one Gideon Nuka Vopna to two years imprisonment without an option of fine. Gideon pleaded guilty to two-count charge bordering on illegal dealing in petroleum products preferred against him by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission. He bagged a two-year jail term on each count. The sentences are to run concurrently. The convict was intercepted sometime in January 2010, by men of the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSDC) at Kpopie Junction in Gokana Local Government Area of Rivers State with 33,000…
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Monday, April 14, 2014 arraigned Sunkami Odewande, before Justice S. S Ogunsanya of Lagos State High Court, sitting in Ikeja, on a 4- count charge bordering on obtaining money by false pretences and possession of documents containing false information. One of the charges read,”Sunkami Odewande sometime on or about December 2012 at Lagos within the Ikeja Judicial Division with intent to defraud, obtained the sum of 1,500 USD (One Thousand Five Hundred United State of America Dollars) from Kate Melock by falsely pretending that the said sum represented over payments due to…
Three persons who attempted to defraud Diamond Bank of N100million through an electronic device called grabber have been docked by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC. Godwin Chukwuemeka Ojukwu, Evaristus Moses Oyemah and Kenneth Iweha were on Monday April 14 arraigned before Justice S.A Nmakanma of the High Court of Abia state, Umuahia, on a 2- count charge bordering on conspiracy and attempt to steal. The accused persons, however, pleaded not guilty to both counts. In view of the accused persons plea, the prosecuting counsel E. A. Jackson prayed the court to remand the accused persons and fix a…
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC on April 11, 2014 arraigned Emmanuel Olufemi Are, (alias Paul Preston), Oladayo Daniel Ajileye, Majekodumi Gbolahan and Omowayeola Joseph Gbenga before Justice A.O Taiwo of a Lagos High Court sitting in Igbosere on a 13-count charge bordering on conspiracy and obtaining money by false pretence and possession of document containing false pretence. The accused persons pleaded not guilty to all the charges preferred against them by the EFCC.The accused persons, who are confidence tricksters, allegedly conned an American lady, Janet Perkins with promises of marriage and obtained various sums of money from her.…
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, had secured more than 773 convictions and recovered billions of naira since its inception in 2003, the Chairman of the Commission, Ibrahim Lamorde, has said. Lamorde who said this on Friday April 11, 2014, in Sokoto while inaugurating the Usman Danfodiyo University chapter of `Zero Tolerance Club, an anti-corruption club explained that the war against corruption, economic and financial crimes would only be won through concerted efforts.Mr. Lamorde who was represented at the occasion by Osita Nwajah, Deputy Director, Public Affairs Department of the Commission, also delivered a paper entitled: “Students should lead…