The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Monday June 16, 2014, arraigned Clifford Nduka Nwachukwu and Jethrow Nigeria Limited before Justice Kudirat Jose of the Lagos High Court, Ikeja on one- count charge bordering on stealing.Nwachukwu’s problems began, sometime in January 2013, when Jethrow Limited, a company owned by him , was awarded a contract to refurbish, rehabilitate and re-install six (6) Steel Skirt Navigational Marking Buoys at Calabar Port, for a total sum of N27million( Twenty-Seven Million Naira only), by Abhal Ventures Limited through Alhaji Abu Mohammed. N15, 000,000(Fifteen Million Naira only) was reportedly given to Jethrow Nigeria…
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The Nigerian Army on Friday June 13, 2014 handed over six suspected oil thieves and three vessels to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, for further investigation and possible prosecution. The suspects; Benard Omoaiwua, Tony Okundia, Osahenrumwen Osaguona, Osaro Arasomwan, Aaron Idahosa Terry, and Blessed Goodluck were arrested by officers of the Guards Brigade, Nigerian Army at the Abaji Military check point, Abuja with three trucks, each loaded with thirty three thousand litres (33,000) of suspected crude oil.Colonel MT Usman said the suspects were arrested on May 31, 2014 on their way to Abuja, from Warri, Delta State.At the…
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Monday, June 16, 2014 arraigned Adedamola Ogungbayibi, Olaniran Olabode, Suraju Gasali, Moses Emmanuel, Wilson Bonsi, Padoun Kayode Jacob, Okparaodi Omaka Uche and Onyeogo Happy, before Justice Saliu Seidu of the Federal High Court, Lagos on a 5-count charge bordering on conspiracy and illegal dealing in petroleum product.When the charges were read to them, they all pleaded not guilty. One of the charges reads:”That you MT Good Success, Hepa Global Energy Limited, Adedamola Ogungbayibi, Olaniran Olabode, Suraju Gasali, Moses Emmanuel, Wilson Bonsi, Padonu kayode Jacob, Okparaodi Omaka Uche and Onyeogo Happy on or…
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has declared wanted one Azmat Mohmood for his alleged involvement in petroleum subsidy scam. Mohmood a German citizen of Pakistani-extraction is an international petroleum trader, whose company, Nimex Petroleum Limited is involved in a case for which ASB Investment, Aro Samuel Bamidele and Abiodun Kayode Bankole are already standing trial before a Lagos State High Court, Ikeja. Briefing journalists at the Commission’s office, Wilson Uwujaren, Head, Media and Publicity, stated that Nimex Petroleum Limited is the company that allegedly sold and shipped 38,010,413 litres of Premium Motor Spirit to the defendants – ASB…
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Friday June 13, 2014 arraigned one Henry Azuike before Justice Sylvanus Chinedu Oriji of the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory, Apo, Abuja on a 13-count charge of attempting to obtain money under false pretence from friends and associates of a former presidential aide and top official of Edo State government, Professor Julius Ihonvbere.He allegedly hacked into Prof. Ihonvbere’s email and began sending messages to his contacts, asking them to pay money into an account with a new generation bank.The accused pleaded not guilty to the 13-count charge when it was…
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…
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…