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

EFCC DOCKS TWO FOR N3M LAND SCAM IN GOMBE.{PHOTOS}.#PRESS RELEASE.

 

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC Gombe Zonal office today arraigned the duo of Karah Emphriem and Abdullah Adamu before Justice Fatima Musa of Gombe State High Court on four counts bordering on conspiracy, obtaining by false pretence and forgery.
The defendants sometime in 2014, allegedly forged documents with which they sold a plot of land to one Muhammed Ali Bello at the cost of Three Million Naira (N3, 000, 000.00).
When the buyer (Muhammed) was trying to develop the plot in 2019, Sanusi Shehu Braimah appeared and claimed ownership of the land, that he bought it from one Alhaji Sale Usman at the cost of Five Hundred Thousand Naira in 2006.
Investigation by the EFCC confirmed the Certificate of Occupancy No. BA/18754 presented by Shehu to have been genuinely issued by the Ministry of Lands and Survey.
Count two of the charge read, "That you Karah Emphirem and Abdullah Adamu sometimes in March, 2014 at Gombe, Gombe State within the Jurisdiction of this Honourable Court, with intent to defraud, fraudulently obtained the sum of N3, 000,000,.00 (Three Million Naira) by falsely representing that the money was payment for a plot of land stuate at Federal Low Cost Gombe, with Plot No. A451/DP/14, representation which you knew to be false and thereby committed and offence contrary to Section 1 (1) of the Advance Fee Fraud and Other Fraud Offences Act, 2006 and punishable under Section 1 (3) of the same Act".
When the charges were read to them, they both pleaded not guilty. Consequently, the prosecution counsel A.M Labaran requested a date for trial and asked the court to remand the defendants pending trial.
While adjourning the case till February 3, 2021 for hearing, Justice Fatima granted the defendants bail in the sum of N300, 000.00 each and two sureties in like sums.

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