LAGOS COURT JAILS NOGASA CHAIR, FATUYI PHILLIPS 21 YEARS FOR N43. 5M FRAUD. (PHOTO). #PRESS RELEASE

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 Lagos Court Jails NOGASA Chair, Fatuyi Phillips 21 Years  for N43.5m Fraud    Justice Mojisola Dada of the Special Offences Court sitting in Ikeja, Lagos, on Monday, November 18, 2024, convicted and sentenced Fatuyi Yemi Philips, Chairman, Natural Oil and Gas Suppliers Association of Nigeria, NOGASA, to 21 years imprisonment for N43.5m fraud.   The Lagos Zonal Directorate of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on April 5, 2022, arraigned Philips alongside his firm, Oceanview Oil and Gas Limited, on a two-count charge bordering on obtaining money by false pretence to the tune of N43, 502,000.00   Count one reads: "Fatuyi Yemi Philips and Oceanview Oil and Gas Nigeria Limited, on or about the 28th day of September, 2016 at Lagos, within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court, with intent to defraud, obtained the aggregate sum of N43, 502,000.00 from Elochukwu Okoye and Elebana Unique Ventures Nigeria Limited on behalf of WAPCIL Nigeria Limited under the false rep

KANO COURT SENTENCED MAN TO 12 MONTHS FOR 5.7 MILLION FRAUD.{PHOTOS}.

                    The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission today friday,secured the conviction of one Abdulmajid Abdulkareem before Honourable Justice Farouq Lawal of Kano State High Court.The convict was sentenced to serve twelve months imprisonment with option of N30,000 {Thirty Thousand Naira Only} fine on the one count ammended charge of cheating.Abdulmajid was arraigned by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on the 30th day of October ,2014 on a three count charge of obtaining under false pretense,forgery and using as genuine.Upon his arraignment,the convict pleaded not guilty but during the cause of trial,the convict approached the commission with a plea bargain agreement and subsequently changed his plea in today's proceeding from not guilty to guilty.The convict's ordeal started when the commission received a petition that sometime in September,2013 ,Abdulmajid sold a plot of land to the complainant,Sagir Bashir Nasambo with Certificate of Occupancy No. LKN/RES/2002/712 situated at No.2786 Dorayi Babba Street,in Kano metropolis through a hand written sales agreement dated 11 September,2013 at the cost of N5,750.000.00 {five million seven hundred and fifty thousand naira}.After making payments,the complainant discovered upon confirmation from the Ministry of Land and Physical Development,Kano,that the C of O presented to him by the convict was forged.The ammended charge read ''That you Abdulmajid Abdulkareem sometimes in September,2013 at Kano within the jurisdiction of the High Court of Kano State with intent to defraud,falsely obtained the sum of N5,750,000 {Five Million,Seven Hundred and Fifty Thousand Naira Only} from Sagir Bashir Nasambo purporting to sell a property situated at No 2786 with Certificate of Occupancy No. LKN/RES/2002/712 situated at Dorayi Babba Street,Kano,which pretense you knew to be false and you knew to be false and you thereby committed an offense contrary to section 320 of the Penal Code and punishable under section 322 of the same Law.

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