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

KWARA COURT REMANDS UNILORIN,KWARA POLY STUDENTS OVER LOVE SCAM.{PHOTO}.#PRESS RELEASE.



Kwara Court Remands Unilorin, Kwara Poly Students over Love Scam


The Ilorin Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Monday, June 28, 2021 arraigned one Ganiyy Rasak, a 300Level student of the University of Ilorin and one Olakunle Adebisi, an ND II student of the Kwara State Polytechnic on one count separate charge bordering on love scam before Justice Mahmood Abdulgafar of the Kwara State High Court sitting in Ilorin.


The charge against Ganiyy reads: "That you,  Ganiyy Rasaq Olarewaju (Richard Hadden), sometime in May, 2021 in Ilorin within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court, did attempt to cheat by personation when you pretended to be one Richard Hadden, a white female with a gmail account haddenrichard56@gmail.com and thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 95 of the Penal Code and punishable under Section 324 of the same Penal Code. "


Particulars of the charge against Olakunle read: “That you, Olakunle Adebisi, sometime in May, 2021 in Ilorin within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court, did attempt to cheat by personation when you pretended to be one Anny Banana, a white female with a gmail account annybanana346@gmail.com and thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 95 of the Penal Code and punishable under Section 324 of the Penal Code."


The defendants pleaded guilty.


Upon their plea, counsel to the EFCC, Sesan Ola led Dagogo Urowayino and Shetima Yusuf (both operatives of the Commission) to review the facts of the case against Rasak and Adebisi, respectively.


The two prosecution witnesses narrated how the defendants were arrested and tendered several fraudulent messages printed from their emails. The documents and the defendants’ phones were later admitted in evidence.


Consequently, Justice Abdulgafar fixed Thursday, July 1, 2021 for judgement and ordered that Adebisi be remanded in a Correctional facility while Rasaq was remanded in EFCC custody.

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