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Alleged 43.5m Fraud: NOGASA Chair, Fatuyi Phillips, Gets N20m Bail
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Justice Mojisola Dada of the Special Offences Court sitting in Ikeja, Lagos, on Thursday, April 28,2022, granted bail to one Fatuyi Yemi Philips, Chairman, Natural Oil and Gas Suppliers Association of Nigeria, NOGASA, who is being prosecuted for an alleged N43.5m fraud, in the sum of N20million.
Phillips alongside his firm, Oceanview Oil and Gas Limited, were arraigned on April 7, 2022 on two counts bordering on obtaining money by false pretence to the tune of N43,502,000.
Court Sends Four Internet Fraudsters to Prison in Benin
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Four internet fraudsters, Omokhua Bright, Nosakhare Uyi, Endurance Omonefe and Osasenaga Desmond were on Wednesday April 27, 2022, convicted and sentenced to various jail terms by Justice Efe Ikponmwonba of Edo State High Court, Benin City.
The quartet were arraigned separately by the Benin Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on one count charge of impersonation and obtaining by false pretence.
Man Docks for Land Scam in Kaduna
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The Kaduna Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Wednesday April 27, 2022 arraigned one Ishaku Gajere before Justice MTM Aliyu of State High Court Kaduna on one count charge bordering on criminal misappropriation.
Ishaku, sometime in October, 2019, fraudulently sold two plots of land at Dan Honu Ii, Kaduna belonging to the Baptist Church to one Ahmed Yusuf Taheer for N830, 000.00, with the false claim that the properties belonged to him.
EFCC Arraigns Bizman, Coy for Alleged N34 million Fraud
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The Benin Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Wednesday, April 27, 2022, arraigned one Adede Omogbale and his company, Spiral Engineering Limited, before Justice Efe Ikponmwonba of the Edo State High Court, Benin on a two -count charge bordering on stealing.
Omogbale as managing director of Spiral Engineering Limited is alleged to have stolen the aggregate sum of N 34,177,530.00, property of Jesuit Father of Nigeria.
EFCC Assures Interfaith Groups on Synergy in Fight Against Corruption
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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has given more assurance to Interfaith groups and other civil society organisations across the country, on greater involvement in its preventive mandate against economic and financial crimes
This assurance was given on Wednesday, April 27, 2022 in Kaduna by the Kaduna Zonal Commander of the EFCC, Assistant Commander of the EFCC, ACE Harry Erin when a delegation of the Interfaith Mediation Centre ( IMC) and the MacArthur Foundation paid a working visit to the Kaduna Zonal Command of the EFCC.
Receiving members of the delegation, Erin, stated that Non-Governmental Organizations, NGOs, like the Interfaith Mediation Centre and others are veritable instruments in the mobilisation of the public against corrupt practices and the EFCC would always work with them. He particularly emphasised the need for more active support by religious bodies in creating public awareness against economic and financial crimes, stressing that they are proven problem solvers.
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