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The Economic
and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has concluded arrangement to arraign
seven more suspects in the on going trial of individuals and organisations
implicated by the investigation into the subsidy regime on imported fuel.
Five of the
suspects implicated in a N5.4billion fuel subsidy scam are to be arraigned on Monday
November 12, 2012 before Justice Lateefa Okunnu of the Lagos High Court,
Ikeja on a thirteen count charge bordering on intent to defraud, stealing,
forgery and uttering.
The suspects
comprising one company and four individuals are: Nasaman Oil Services
Limited, Mamman Nasir Ali, Christian Taylor, Oluwaseun Ogunbambo and Olabisi
Abdul-Afeez (still at large). Specifically, they are alleged to have
obtained the sum of N4, 460,130,797.94 (Four Billion Four Hundred and Sixty
Million, One hundred and Thirty Thousand, Seven Hundred and Ninety Seven Naira,
Ninety Four Kobo) from the Federal Government of Nigeria by falsely claiming
that the sum represented subsidy accruing to them under the petroleum support
fund for the importation of 61,049,937.00 litres of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS).
One of the
charges reads:
“Nasaman Oil
Services Ltd, Mamman Nasir Ali, Christian Taylor, Oluwaseun Ogunbambo and
Olabisi Abdul-Afeez (still at large) between 2010 and 2012 in Lagos within the
Ikeja Judicial Division with intent to defraud conspired to obtain the sum of
N2.230,065,398.97 (Two Billion, Two Hundred and Thirty Million, Sixty Five
Thousand and Ninety Eight Naira Kobo Only) from the Federal Government of
Nigeria by falsely claiming that the sum represented subsidy accruing to
Nasaman Oil Services Ltd under the petroleum support fund for the importation
of 30,524,968.50 litres of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) which Nasaman Oils
Services Ltd purported to have purchased from SEATAC Petroleum Ltd to British
Virgin Islands and imported into Nigeria through MT Liquid Fortune Ex Mt Overseas
Lima, which representation you know to be false”.
A second charge
reads:
“Nasaman Oil
Services Ltd, Mamman Nasir Ali, Christian Taylor, Oluwaseun Ogunbambo and
Olabisi Abdul-Afeez (still at large) on or about the 11th day of April 2012 at
Lagos within the Ikeja Judicial Division with intent to defraud conspired
to obtain the sum of N1,480,074,125.61 (One Billion Four Hundred and Eighty
Million, Seventy Four Thousand, One Hundred and Twenty Five Naira, Sixty One
Kobo Only) from the Federal Government of Nigeria by falsely claiming that the
sum represented subsidy accruing to Nasaman Oil Services Ltd under the
petroleum support fund for the importation of 20,492,982.50 litres of Premium
Motor Spirit (PMS) which Nasaman Oils Services Ltd purported to have purchased
from SEATAC Petroleum Ltd to British Virgin Islands and imported into Nigeria
through MT Liquid Fortune Ex Mt Hellenic Blue and Ex Mt. Milleura which
representation you know to be false”.
The remaining
two suspects, Rowaye Jubril and Brila Energy Limited will also be
arraigned before Justice Okunnu on Tuesday November 13, 2012 on a 13
count criminal charge of conspiracy, stealing, forgery and uttering.
The duo are
alleged to have obtained the sum of N963, 796, 199.85 ( Nine Hundred and Sixty
Three Million, Seven Hundred and Ninety Six Thousand, One Hundred and
Ninety-Nine Naira, Eighty Five Kobo) from the Federal Government by
falsely representing the sum as subsidy accruing to them for the importation of
13, 155,807MT or 17,393,767 litres of Premium Motor Spirit.
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