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

KWIRS STAFF,FOUR OTHERS IN COURT FOR RECEIPT RACKETEERING IN KWARA STATE.

Image result for kwara state       A staff on Kwara State Internal Revenue Service and four others have been arraigned before Magistrate Shade Lawal of the Kwara State Revenue court on charges of criminal conspiracy and forgery of receipts of the Internal Revenue Service (KWIRS).
This was disclosed in a statement by Mr Lateef Okandeji the Director of Legal and Enforcement, Kwara State Internal Revenue Service on Friday.
Mr Okandeji said that the five accused persons are staffers of both KWIRS and the Kwara state Bureau of lands.
He disclosed that sometimes in August, the agency discovered that some prospective tax payers within Ilorin and its environs were being issued with fake receipts of the agency and also indicating payment of huge sums of money by the tax payers.
Okandeji noted that the agency thereafter petitioned the Commissioner of Police, Kwara State command who arrested the accused persons in the course of investigation.
Okandeji listed the names of the accused as Adebola Ajibare, 37 (KWIRS), Adeleke Hakeem, 34, Moshood Isiaka, 33, Adisa Abdullahi, 32 and Ayilara Adenike 42 who are staff of the Bureau of lands. He confirmed that they have also confessed to the crime.
The director said the accused conspired and forged the documents of the revenue agency to sabotage the revenue generation of the state government and defraud innocent tax payers.He noted that the judge, Magistrate Shade Lawal, admitted the accused to bail and adjourned the case to October 10, 2017 for further mention.
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