ALLEGED $1.5M FRAUD: WITNESS TELLS COURT FUNDS CAME INTO DEFENDANT’S ACCOUNT IN MULTIPLE TRANCHES. (PHOTO). #PRESS RELEASE

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 Alleged $1.5m Fraud:   Witness Tells Court Funds Came into Defendant’s Account in Multiple Tranches The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Monday, June 29, 2026, presented its third prosecution witness (PW3), Levi Amanda Opice, a Compliance Officer with Guaranty Trust Bank (GTBank), in the ongoing trial of Ifoma Immanuel before Justice Mojisola Dada of the Lagos State Special Offences Court, Ikeja, over an alleged $1.5 million fraud. Immanuel is standing trial alongside his company, Intermediate Investment Holdings Limited, on a two-count charge bordering on obtaining money by false pretence and forgery involving the sum of $1.5 million. According to the EFCC, investigations revealed that the defendant allegedly induced Adebisi Adebutu of R28 Holdings Limited to invest $1.5 million by claiming that the funds would be used to finance projects linked to Chappal Petroleum Development Company Limited, Intermediate Investment Holdings Limited, and Chappal Ener...

SERIAL RAPIST SENTENCED TO A LENGTHY 70 YEARS IMPRISONMENT. (PHOTO).


 Violence, Child Protection, and Sexual offenses (FCS) Unit in Burgesfort for further investigations.


Through his meticulous investigations, the accused was traced, positively linked to these cases, and subsequently arrested.


The accused, Phelane Mathata Gift, was found guilty and sentenced to an effective 70 (seventy years) imprisonment as follows:


*Count 1, rape: 10 years imprisonment

Count 2, robbery: 5 years imprisonment

Count 3, kidnapping: 05 years imprisonment, count 2 and 3 will run concurrently with count 1.

*Count 4, rape: 10 years imprisonment

Count 5, robbery: 05 years imprisonment

Count 6, kidnapping: 05 years imprisonment, count 5 and 6 will run concurrently with count 4.

*Count 7, rape: 10 years imprisonment

Count 8, robbery: 05 years imprisonment, count 8 will run concurrently with count 7.

*Count 9, rape: 10 years imprisonment

Count 10, robbery: 05 years imprisonment, count 10 will run concurrently with 9.

*Count 11, rape: 10 years imprisonment

Count 12, robbery: 05 years imprisonment, count 12 will run concurrently with 11.

*Count 15, rape: 10 years imprisonment

Count 16, robbery: 05 years imprisonment, count 16 will run concurrently with 15.

*Count 17, kidnapping: 05 years imprisonment

Count 18, rape: 10 years imprisonment.

Count 17 will run concurrently with count 18.


Effective 70 years imprisonment. Declared unfit to possess firearm.


The Provincial Commissioner of the South African Police Service in Limpopo Lieutenant General Thembi Hadebe has welcomed the conviction and sentencing. She also applauded the investigating officer and everyone involved in investigation of these cases until court finally sentenced the accused and a justice served to the victims and their families.

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