The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has said it is looking to partner with Kano State Public Complaint and Anti Corruption Commission (KPCAC), in its fight against economic and financial crimes.Osita Nwajah, Deputy Director, Public Affair Department, gave the indication, Wednesday in Kano when he received the Director, Kano State Public Complaint and Anti Corruption Commission, Alhaji Umaru Idi, at the Commission’s Zonal Office in Kano. He said the Commission is willing to synergise with groups and organisation that shares its vision of eradicating economic crimes, including corruption.Earlier, Idi expressed his organisation’s willingness to join forces with the EFCC in…
Author: Kunle Edun
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Wednesday May 21, 2014 arraigned Ibrahim Yusuf and Mainasara Yusuf before Justice Darius Khobo of the Kaduna State High Court on four count charge bordering on obtaining money by false pretence.The accused persons allegedly posed as suppliers of crude oil with Hawaris Contracting Limited and in that capacity obtained the sum of N2,000,000 (Two Million Naira Only) from one Kehinde Fatunbi as ATB (Authority to Board a vessel of crude oil) and clearance for the supply of crude oil. One of the counts read: “that you Hawaris Contracting Limited and you, Abubakar…
A Federal High Court sitting in Benin, Edo State has convicted and sentenced Idris Abubakar and Ibrahim Hassan to three years imprisonment each without an option of fine for illegally dealing in petroleum products. The term starts from the date of their arrest.The convicts were among eleven suspected illegal dealers of petroleum products arrested by men of the Joint Task Force, 4th Brigade, Nigerian Army, Benin sometime in January, 2012 and handed over to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission for further investigation and prosecution.They were subsequently arraigned before Justice A. M. Liman, on a four-count charge bordering on conspiracy,…
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Wednesday, May 21, 2014 arraigned two staff of Ecobank Plc, Ekpe Sunday and Denis Joseph James alongside Ecobank, before Justice I. L Ojukwu of the Federal High Court sitting in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State on a 2-count charge bordering on conspiracy, fraudulent diversion of funds, forgery and impersonation to the tune of N7, 067, 576.55 (Seven Million, Sixty Seven Thousand, Five Hundred and Seventy Six Naira, Fifty-Five Kobo only).Sunday and James were alleged to have failed to exercise due diligence in opening a spurious account for a fraudster, in the name of…
The first accused person in the trial of a former Governor of Edo State, Patrick Eboigbodin on Wednesday, May, 21, 2014, told a Federal High Court sitting in Benin- City, Edo State, that, he did not sign a sum of N300 Million ( Three Hundred Million Naira only) as security payments on behalf of Governor Lucky Igbinedion.Eboigbodin, who spoke as a defence witness at the resumed trial of the case on Wednesday, identified various payment documents currently before the court as exhibits. Some of the payments included N20 million for hosting the then President and Commander- in-Chief, N300 million for…
Two persons, Bello Mohammed Tukur, a staff of Bauchi State Scholarship Board and one, Shamsuden Abdullahi, were today arraigned before Justice Mohammed Garba Umar at the Federal High Court Bauchi by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, for conspiracy, forgery and stealing. The duo sometime in 2012, allegedly defrauded the Bauchi State Scholarship Board to the tune of about N8.023 million.The sum was allegedly pulled out from the Board’s accounts at the defunct FinBank (now FCMB) and GT Bank Plc, with forged instruments.Further investigation by the Commission revealed how Tukur who works in the Secret Registry of the Board, and…
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Wednesday, May 20, 2014 arraigned Etim James Etim before Justice I.L Ojukwu of a Federal High Court, Uyo, Akwa-Ibom State on a 12-count charge bordering on conspiracy, forgery and stealing. Specifically, Etim allegedly stole and sold shares valued at N11.655, 000 (Eleven Million, Six Hundred and Fifty- Five Thousand Naira only) belonging to an eighty-five-year old pensioner, Chief Ukim Okon Edem, without his consent. He committed the fraud in connivance with three other accomplices: Okey Godfrey Okebalama, James Oyabolo and Udoh (all at large). When the charges were read to him, he…
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, will on May 23, 2014 arraign a business woman, Mary Okoh alias Josephine Williams, for offences bordering on fraud and forgery.Okoh was arrested by the operatives of the Commission following a complaint by Okon Abasi, executive officer, Mutual Alliance Property Development Company Limited.According to Abasi, the suspect obtained the sum of thirty million naira (N30, 000,000.00) from him as loan and gave him a Certificate of Occupancy for her landed property situated at Gwarimpa, Abuja as collateral.The suspect allegedly defaulted in payment of the loan and also sold the property used as collateral…
The duo of Bernard Chukwuma Muoghalu and Anyiam Isabella have been docked before Justice V. N. Agbata of the Anambra State High Court, Onitsha, on a 12-count charge of obtaining money under false pretence.The accused who are being prosecuted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, allegedly conspired and obtained various sums of money totalling N1,800,000.00 (one million, eight hundred thousand naira) from some job seekers with promise of helping them to secure jobs with the Onitsha North Local Government Council.After collecting money from them, the accused persons issued fake employment letters to the applicants and asked them to…
An FCT High Court, Abuja, presided over by Justice O. A. Adeniyi on Tuesday May 20, 2014 convicted and sentenced one Mustapha Suleiman to two years imprisonment without an option of fine for issuance of dud cheque. His company, Caliphate Global Investment Limited was fined one hundred thousand naira (N100, 000.00).The convict was arraigned by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC in 2009 on one count charge of fraud and issuance of dud cheque. He allegedly bought a plot of land from Alhaji Samaila Shehu (now late), for the sum of thirty one million naira (N31, 000,000.00). He paid…
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Thursday, May 15th, 2014 arraigned a former staff of Chevron Nigeria Limited, Mr. Michael Adenuga before a Lagos High Court sitting in Ikeja over a three-count charge of fraudulent conversion and stealing a property worth N5.5billion. Adenuga ran into trouble when he allegedly used his company: Covenant Apartment Limited to convert to himself and company about 22.68hectares of land situated at Aiyetoro Ikota area of Lagos State between September 2011 and February 2014. Besides, he also allegedly forged a Lagos State land sales document claiming that the said land had been sold…
The Chairman, Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Ibrahim Lamorde, has again charged Nigerian youths to be disciplined and shun all acts of corruption.Lamorde made the appeal recently during the inauguration of EFCC Integrity Club at Police Secondary School, Ita-Ogbolu, Akure, Ondo State .The Chairman who was represented by the Deputy Director, Public Affairs, Osita Nwajah, said that the Integrity Club was envisioned by the Commission to instil core values of honesty, fairness, responsibility and respect for self, others and citizenship in the minds of young people.According to him the youth needed to imbibe this core values in order to…
Justice O. A. Adeniyi of the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja on Friday May 16, 2014 convicted and sentenced one Ebiloma Abdullahi to 12 years imprisonment for forgery and obtaining money by false pretence.The convict was arraigned in November 2009 on a 7-count charge of impersonation, forgery and obtaining money by false pretence. He paraded himself as a student of Federal University of Technology, Minna was said to have assumed the position of the National President of the National Association of Nigeria Student, NANS, and in such capacity paid courtesy visits to Alhaji Isa Yuguda, governor of…
An empty fishing Trawler (FT Opeyemi), operating without a fishing license, belonging to Oshine Resources Venture, with seven crew members on board, was on Friday, May 16, 2014 handed over to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, by the Nigeria Navy Shipyard, Beecroft, in Lagos. Officers of the Nigeria Navy on patrol arrested the Trawler in March 27, 2014. Captain J.N Mamman, Commanding Officer, NNS Beecroft and Lieutenant B.E Enock, Acting Base Operation Officer, NNS Beecroft, handed over the ship and the crew to the EFCC.The seven crew members are: Captain Momodu Ibrahim; Engr. Togbosi Christian; Idowu Tuesday; Benjamin…
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC is to arraign the Chief Executive Officer of Globtec Resources Limited, Joseph Idoko, and three others for offences bordering on conspiracy and obtaining money by false pretence. The other suspects are Mahmud A. Mohammed, Chief Executive, Al-Maqarinaz International Limited, Ikechukwu Nkwoha-Philip and Ibrahim Ali, Chief Executive, Dano Interglobal Marine Services Limited.The suspects were picked up by operatives of the Commission following a complaint by the Chief Executive of Emex Oil Ndawta Ghana Limited, Ismaila Abdulgafar. The complainant alleged that, Idoko and his cohorts, who parade themselves as oil merchants, conspired and fraudulently collected…
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission EFCC on Thursday May 15, 2014 arraigned Muhammad Ibrahim Sodangi before Justice Darius Haet Khobo of the Kaduna State High Court on a 13-count charge bordering on personation and stealing. Sodangi is alleged to have falsely pretended to be a retired officer/civil servant in the Kaduna State Civil Service and in such assumed character enlisted his name in the pension payroll of Kaduna State Civil Service where he defrauded the state of N66 million (sixty six million naira).The Kaduna State Government had engaged Sodangi as a consultant to undertake the computerization of the Kaduna…
A former Commissioner for Youth and Sports, Anambra State, Prince Okay Aroh and a former banker with United Bank for Africa, Abimbola Oluwaniyi, were on Thursday, May 15, 2014 arraigned before Justice Oluwatoyin Ipaye of the Lagos High Court, Ikeja on a 6- count charge bordering on conspiracy, stealing, forgery and uttering to the tune of N265million (Two Hundred and Sixty Five Million Naira ). The former Commissioner and his accomplice ran into trouble, when a petitioner wrote to the EFCC alleging that, in 2009, he deposited N265, 000,000.00 (Two Hundred and Sixty Five Million Naira) in a fixed deposit…
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, today May 15, 2014 arraigned one Madeline Eyimofe alongside her company, Demoris Environmental Services Limited before Justice R.I. Ahiakwo of the State High Court on one count charge bordering on issuance of a dud cheque.Madeline allegedly issued an Oceanic Bank Cheque No 08816714 for the sum of Six million, Five Hundred Thousand Naira (N6, 500,000.00) to one Sylvester Igwegbe. The cheque was allegedly returned for lack of sufficient fund when it was presented for payment. She however pleaded not guilty to the charge.In view of her plea, prosecuting counsel, U.R Ewoh asked the…
Justice Adebisi Akinlade of a Lagos State High Court, sitting in Igbosere on Thursday, May 15, 2014 issued a bench warrant on Oluwaseun Ogunbambo, who is standing trial in a case of forgery and obtaining N610million by false pretence.Counsel to the EFCC, Rotimi Oyedepo, informed the court about the continued absence of Ogunbambo from court in three previous sessions. He reminded the court that Ogunbambo’s counsel, at the last court session, promised to bring him to court but failed to fulfil his promise. He prayed the court to issue a bench warrant on him.However, Ogunbambo’s counsel, Mobolaji Akintunde prayed the…
Six years after Justice Marcel Awokulehin sensationally struck out all 170-count charge of money laundering preferred against former governor of Delta State, James Onanefe Ibori by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, a three-man panel of justices at the Benin Division of the Court of Appeal today, May 15, 2014 ruled that the ex- governor who is currently serving a 13-year jail term in a London prison, has a case to answer. The unanimous decision of court setting aside the infamous ruling of Justice Awokulehin was delivered by Justice Ibrahim Saulawa and was supported by Justices P. M Ekpe…