The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Tuesday, February 11, 2014 arraigned one Yusuf Kehinde Bakare before Justice Raliatu Adebiyi of the Lagos High Court, Igbosere on a 75-count charge bordering on conspiracy, stealing and obtaining money under false pretence. Kehinde Bakare is alleged to have received the sum of N1,472,285,294 (One Billion, Four Hundred and Seventy Two Million, Two Hundred and Eighty Five Thousand, Two Hundred and Ninety Four Naira) to advertise four (4) products namely: Gino Tomato Paste; Pomo Tomato Paste; Jago MilkPowder and. Jago D’ Lite Milk Powder on both radio and TV outlets across the…
Author: Kunle Edun
Justice A. A Ademola of the Federal High Court, Abuja on February 7, 2014 sent the quartet of Dr Shuaibu Sani Teidi, Omoefe Eric Uduesegbe, Aliyu Bello and Abdullahi Omeiza all former employees of the Pension office of the Head of Federal Civil Service, to Kuje prison as their trial were stalled by the absence of Adewale Adegoke, defence counsel to the second accused person on ground of ill health. The accused persons are being prosecuted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, for defrauding the pension office to the tune of N10, 080, 006, 276.00 (Over Ten Billion…
Justice Adebisi Akinlade of the Lagos High Court, Igbosere today, February 7, 2014 mandated the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC to investigate claims by Oluwaseun Ogunbambo that he was not medically fit to stand trial. The alleged serial fraudster who is being prosecuted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on charges bordering on stealing was conspicuously absent when the case came up for hearing today. But his counsel Bimbo Akintunde claims his client’s absence was due to the fact that he was undergoing treatment at the Military Hospital, Yaba, Lagos for alleged spinal cord injury arising from a…
A Federal High Court sitting in Kano, Kano State today, February 7, 2014 sentenced one Ibrahim Saleh Nagero to two years imprisonment for offences bordering on financial malpractices. The convict allegedly used a fake bank guarantee to obtain a N36m lease finance facility from First Bank Nigeria Plc. The convict who was arraigned by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on Thursday, February 6, 2014 alongside three staff of First Bank -Mukhtar Ali Tofa, Yusuf Tafida and Aminu A. Magashi – on a three count charge that borders on financial malpractices and obtaining by false pretence, pleaded guilty to one…
Justice Abubakar Sadiq Umar of the FCT High Court, Maitama, Abuja on Thursday, February 6, 2014 convicted and sentenced one Agboworin Omole to fifteen months imprisonment with no option of fine over an offence which borders on fraud. The convict was arraigned by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC on one count amended charge for fraudulently collecting and misappropriating the sum of N8.4m (Eight Million, Four Hundred Thousand Naira) belonging to the Federal Ministry of Education, Abuja. The charge reads: “That you Chief B.A Omole being the Managing Director of Omole Agboworin & Co. and Omole Agboworin & Co . …
A finance manager with a Port Harcourt, Rivers State- based oil services company, Akintunde Ajao has been arrested by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC for allegedly diverting N52million in tax revenue due to the Rivers State Board of Internal Revenue into the account of a private company owned by him. Ajao who is finance manager of Cetco Oilfield Services allegedly used his position to divert the tax deductions payable to the Rivers State Government coffers into a Diamond Bank account allegedly owned by one YPSL Nigeria limited of which he is the sole signatory. The fraudulent transfers were uncovered…
A Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos and presided over by Justice Rita-Ofili Ajumogobia was today told that a former Director General of the Nigeria Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, NIMASA, Raymond Temisan Omatseye, who is being prosecuted by the EFCC on charges bordering on contract variation and bid rigging, violated provisions of the Public Procurement Act by awarding contracts above his approval limit. At the resumed hearing of the case today, prosecution witness and procurement officer with the Bureau for Public Procurement, BPP Mr. Aliu E. Aliu, reviewed various documents already tendered by the prosecution as exhibit, and…
The chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Ibrahim Lamorde, today dispelled all notions of interference in the work of the agency, asserting that the Commission works independently. Lamorde stated this when he received the Director, Sub-Sahara Africa Department of the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Mr. Michael Stibbe and the ambassador of the Netherlands to Nigeria, John Groffen in his office. Lamorde stated that the Commission does it work independently and without any interference citing the prosecution of those allegedly involved in the fuel subsidy scam as example. “We have enjoyed tremendous political goodwill. We changed the son…
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission today, February 5, 2014 told an Abuja High Court presided over by Justice S. E Aladedoyinbo how the trio of Emeka Ukor, Anthony Uzonwanne and Babayemi Bukola conspired and forged the signature of the Senate President, Senator David Mark, in an attempt to fraudulently withdraw the sum of N45 million from his bank account. The accused persons are being prosecuted by the EFCC on a seven count charge bordering on conspiracy and forgeryAt the resumed hearing of the case today, prosecution witness Benedict Agweye who was lead in evidence by counsel to EFCC, Shata…
An undergraduate of the University of Ibadan, 28-year- old Orowo Jesse Omokoh, has been arrested by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission for allegedly obtaining Ninety Thousand Dollars ($90,000.) from one Mrs. Jette Jacob, an Australian based in Johannesburg, South Africa, in what is known as romance scam. The suspect allegedly met the Aussie on a dating site and struck a sizzling romantic affair that necessitated him moving to Johannesburg in 2013 to link up with his lover.Omokoh allegedly arrived in Johannesburg, South Africa on February 4, 2013, to meet with Jacob who had been in Johannesburg since November 2012. Five days…