Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Ibrahim Lamorde has called on Nigeria youths to imbibe integrity as a way of life.Lamorde who was represented by Aisha Larai Musa, Head, Enlightenment and Re-orientation Unit, made this remark at the launch of Integrity Clubs in some police secondary schools across the South-South Zone of the country.According to him, the clubs are design to inculcate the values of integrity and transparency in the impressionable students to enable them grown up to be responsible citizens and change agents for Nigeria. Economic and financial crimes, he said, could be best prevented if an…
Author: Kunle Edun
Justice Sylvanus Chinedu Oriji of the FCT High Court sitting in Apo, Abuja today, June 11, 2014 granted bail to the duo Mohammed Abubakar Kent and Precious Otsu, who are currently being prosecuted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, for offences which border on fraud. Kent and Otsu were granted bail in the sum of N25m (twenty five million naira) each and two sureties in like sum. One of the sureties must be a civil servant not below grade level 14. The sureties must depose to affidavit of means and must be resident within the jurisdiction of the…
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has arraigned Adedokun Tajudeen Oladipupo before Justice S. S Ogunsanya of the Lagos High Court sitting in Ikeja on one count charge bordering on obtaining money by false pretences. Oladipupo was alleged to have contacted a firm, J.P Solutions & Investment Limited, through his company, Del Waste Management Limited, with an offer to sell foreign exchange worth $150,000( One Hundred and Fifty Thousand United States Dollars) to it, for a naira equivalent of N23,550,000.00( Twenty-Three Million, Five Hundred and Fifty Thousand Naira only).The firm reportedly gave him the money but Oladipupo neither provided…
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has arrested three suspected fraudsters involved in forgery, personation and fraudulent sale of shares to the tune of N73,764,428( Seventy Three Million, Seven Hundred and Sixty Four Thousand, Four Hundred Twenty Eight Naira ).Muhammed Rabiu Lawan (a.k.a Alhaji Shande Ako Dzungwe and Alhaji Isa Koto); Raphael Olorunfemi Okomoda, Adebgesan Theophilius and four others who are still at large, were arrested by operatives of the Commission following a report of fraudulent sale of shares of two deceased shareholders by the supects. The stocks originally belong to Alhaji Shande Ako Dzungwe and Alhaji Isa Koto…
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has opposed bids by Mahmud Tukur and one other accused person standing trial in a $1.8billion subsidy scam, to quash charges preferred against them.Tukur is standing trial alongside, Ochonogor Alex, Abdulahi Alao and Eterna Plc. At the resumed hearing of the matter before Justice Lawal Akapo of the Lagos High Court, Ikeja, on Monday, counsel to the EFCC, Rotimi Jacobs, SAN, prayed the court not to entertain the submissions of the defence team led by Tayo Oyetibo, SAN, to quash the charges against Tukur and others. Oyetibo had argued that the charges preferred…
The Chairman of the Kano State council of the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, Yunusa Isah Danguguwa, was today arraigned by the Economic And Financial Crimes Commission before Justice Fatu Riman of the Federal High Court, Kano on one count charge bordering on obtaining N2, 000, 000 (Two Million Naira ) by false pretence .The accused allegedly obtained the sum from one Usman Arzika of Williams Dabo International Limited under the pretext that the Nigeria Labour Congress, Kano council had awarded a contract to the company for the supply of 250 units of ‘second hand’ cars and that the N2 million…
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Monday, June 9, 2014, arraigned Mohammed Abubakar Kent and Precious Otsu before Justice Sylvanus Chinedu Oriji of the Federal Capital Territory High Court, Abuja on an 11-count charge bordering on criminal breach of trust, personation, forgery and obtaining money by false pretence.The suspects allegedly conspired and forged document in the name of Little Acorns Turkey Project Limited and fraudulently defrauded the company to the tune of N800m (Eight Hundred Million Naira) over a property development scheme at Lokogoma, Abuja.Count one reads, “that you Mohammed Abubakar Kent, sometime in, 2011 at Abuja, in the…
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Thursday, June 6, 2014, arraigned the Finance Controller of Lonestar Drilling Nigeria Limited, John Adet Esiegbuya, before Justice Lambo Akanbi of the Federal High Court, Port Harcourt, on an 8-count charge bordering on conspiracy, stealing, forgery and obtaining money under false pretence.The accused, sometime in July, 2010, allegedly forged documents and signature of the Managing Director, Lonestar Drilling Nigeria Limited and defrauded the company of Three Hundred Thousand US Dollars ($300,000.00); which he allegedly transferred to the account of another company, Combo Limited, purportedly promoted to conceal the fraud.The accused pleaded not guilty…
Justice Kudirat Jose of the Lagos High Court, Ikeja, on Friday, June 6, 2014, suspended further hearing in the $1.69million scam case involving suspected serial fraudster, Fred Ajudua, till September 24, 2014, to allow for the determination of the accused person’s appeal, challenging the court’s refusal of his bail application.Ajudua is asking the Court of Appeal, Lagos Division to upturn Justice Jose’s decision to refuse him bail. In the notice of appeal, he insisted that he needed urgent medical attention that would not be possible while in prison. He contended that the lower court was biased in not granting his…
Justice Adeniyi Ademola of the Federal High Court, Abuja, on June 6, 2014, varied the terms of the bail earlier granted Aliyu Bello, a former Special Assistant to the Director of Administration (Pension Accounts) Office of the Head of the Civil Service of the Federation and Abdullahi Omeiza, a school teacher in Sokoto.The accused persons are being tried by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on a 5-count charge bordering on criminal conversion and obtaining over One Billion Naira (N1billion) from the Pension Account, Office of the Head of the Civil Service of the Federation, by false pretence.Justice Ademola…
Justice Dije Abdu Aboki of the Kano State High Court on June 5, 2014, convicted and sentenced Bright Evobai and Okechukwu Okolo to forty- three years imprisonment for offences bordering on obtaining by false pretence and forgery.They were arraigned by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on November 27, 2012, on an eight count charge. The convicts, former employees of Intercontinental Bank Plc (now Access Bank), conspired and defrauded the bank to the tune of N9, 700, 000 (Nine Million Seven Hundred Thousand Naira Only). They allegedly used stolen letterhead paper belonging to Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital Kano and…
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC Wednesday, June 4, 2014 arraigned the Finance Manager, Cetco Oilfields Services Limited, Akintunde Ajao alongside his company, YPSL Nigeria Limited, before Justice Lambo Akanbi of the Federal High Court, Port Harcourt on a 4-count charge bordering on conspiracy, forgery, and obtaining money by false pretence. Akintunde allegedly used his office as Finance Manager to prepare a false tax liability for Cetco Oilfields Services Limited to the tune of Seventy Four Million, Nine Hundred and Sixty Three Thousand, Seven Hundred and Twelve Naira, Eighty Kobo (N74, 963, 712: 80).Under the guise of acting on a…
A seven-day International Police Training, organized by the German Police for Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC and Department of State Services, DSS, ended on Wednesday, June 4, in Lagos. The training, entitled: Principles and Methods of Police Evaluation, was a capacity-building and international collaborative initiative, facilitated by the Consulate General of the Federal Republic of Germany. It held at the Conference Hall of the EFCC, Lagos. Thirty participants, comprising twenty from the EFCC and ten from the DSS, benefited from the programme. German Consul-General, Mr. Michael Derus, explained that the training was aimed at honing the skills…
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Wednesday, June 4, 2014 arraigned a suspected romance scammer: Omokoh Orowo Jesse before Justice R.B Akintola of the Oyo State High Court, Ibadan, on a 9-count charge bordering on conspiracy and obtaining money by false pretence. Specifically, Jesse allegedly fleeced an Australian lady, Jette Jacobs of the sum of $90,000 (Ninety Thousand United States Dollars) in a romance scam that went awry. He reportedly met Jesse in an online dating site and contrived a relationship with her. Reports showed that Jette travelled to Johannesburg, South Africa in November 2012. Jesse left Nigeria…
An FCT High Court presided over by Justice Olasumbo.O Goodluck today, June 4, 2014 ruled that it has jurisdiction to entertain the N1.4bn oil subsidy case involving the trio Helen Aninye, Chizobam Ben-Okafor and their company, Pon-Specialized Services Limited.The accused persons are being prosecuted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC on an eighteen count charge bordering on conspiracy, obtaining by false pretence and forgery.Aninye and Ben-Okafor allegedly conspired and fraudulently obtained the sum of one billion, four hundred and thirteen million, five hundred and seven thousand, nine hundred and fifty one naira, fifty kobo (N1, 413,507,951.50) from the…
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Tuesday, June 3, 2014, arraigned the duo of Ahmed Ali Mohammed and Nuhu Ibrahim Ishaq before Justice Ibrahim Christopher Auta of the Niger State High Court, Minna on a 6-count charge bordering on conspiracy, forgery and obtaining by false pretences. The suspects allegedly paraded themselves as directors of Sandabe International Company Limited and, in that assumed capacity, fraudulently obtained the sum of N140,000,000.00 (one hundred and forty million naira) from one Hon. Mohammed Umar Bago.Count two of the charge reads: “that you Ahmed Ali Mohammed, and Nuhu Ibrahim Ishaq, sometime between 1st…
The trial of former governor of Nasarawa State, Aliyu Akwe Doma and two others before Justice A. A Okeke of the Federal High Court, Lafia, Nasarawa State was today stalled as the defence sought adjournment pending the determination of its application for the transfer of the case to another judge. The ex-governor is being prosecuted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, alongside Timothy Anthony Anjide and Dauda Egwe on a 10-count charge bordering on money laundering. At the resumed hearing of the case June 2, 2014, the defence counsel, Charles Edosomwan, SAN who was represented by Olalekan Ojo,…
For attempting to obtain a sum of N2million from their victim in fake Globacom promo lottery, the duo of Egbearo Friday and Samson Akpaibor are to spend 7 years behind bars. The jail term was handed to the fraudsters on May 30 by Justice A. M Liman of the Federal High Court, Benin who found them guilty on all17-count charge that borders on obtaining by false, preferred against them by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission.Egbearo and Akpaibor were first arraigned on June 17, 2013 following their arrest in the wake of a complaint by one Dr. Christopher Onwubuemeli. He…
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on May 28, 2014 arraigned one Igwilo Emeka Henry before Justice Chudi Nwankwor of the Anambra State High Court, Onitsha on one count charge of obtaining money by false pretence and issuance of dud cheque. The accused who is a trader allegedly made a deposit of two hundred thousand naira (N200, 000.00) to Party West Nigeria Limited to facilitate the release of goods worth Three Million Naira to him. The goods were released on trust, with the understanding that the balance would be paid within two weeks. At the expiration of the deadline, the…
Justice Fatu Riman of the Federal High Court Kano today sentenced one Mohammed Basiru Abdulkadir to seven years imprisonment for offences bordering on currency counterfeiting. The convict was arraigned on May 28, 2014 by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on a 5-count charge bordering on possession of counterfeit currency. He pleaded guilty to all five counts when they were read to him and was consequently convicted by Justice Riman but the case was adjourned to today for sentencing.When proceedings resumed today, Justice Riman sentenced Mohammed to five month imprisonment on count one, two and three with no option…