George Turnah and two others were found guilty of fraud and given six-year sentences by a Federal High Court in Port Harcourt.
Turnah served as the NDDC’s Special Adviser on Youth under previous Managing Director Dan Abia.
In May 2017, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) formally charged Turnah, Ebis Orubebe, and Uzorgor Silas-Chidebere with six counts of obtaining N2,894,500,000 (two billion, eight hundred and ninety-four million, five hundred thousand) under false presence, money laundering, conversion of funds, and forgery in violation of Section 1 subsection 3 of the Advance Fee Fraud and Other Fraud Related Offences Act, 2006.
According to Infostride News, the trial judge, Justice Abubakar Turaki-Mohammed, ruled that the defendants were responsible for the crimes alleged by the EFCC’s Port Harcourt Zonal Command.
They were found guilty and sentenced to two years in prison by Justice Turaki-Mohammed, for a total of six years to run from the day of their arrest.
However, he gave them the option of paying a fine, and he ordered the first defendant to pay N1,000,000 and the second and third defendants to pay N500,000 each into the Federal Republic of Nigeria’s Consolidated Revenue Account.
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