Operatives
of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, have arrested
three fake crude oil sellers for allegedly defrauding a Ghanaian a sum
of N20millon.
The
suspects: Otuma Firstborn, Stephen Okonkwo and Aniekan Udoh, were
arrested in Port Harcourt, Rivers State. Troubles came for them when a
petitioner, Solomon Lamptey, a Ghanaian, accused them of presenting
themselves as genuine crude oil sellers from the Nigerian National
Petroleum Corporation, NNPC. Lamptey allegedly came to Nigeria in
November 2017 seeking authentic suppliers of crude oil. In his quest, he
met Firstborn who demanded and collected an initial sum of $1,800 and
an additional sum of N500,000.00 for "Notice of Readiness for two
vessels": MT Skamandras and MtT Toledo Spirit. The vessels were to
deliver the crude oil to Lamptey in Ghana.
Aside
the initial money Lamptey allegedly made a further payment of
$56,000.00( N20,000,000.00) as logistics to move the vessels from
Nigeria to Ghana. Otuma acted as a link to Okonkwo, who allegedly used
his company, Rextronics Nigeria Limited to collect a sum of
N13,000,000.00( Thirteen Million Naira only) out of the money Lamptey
paid for the crude oil. Udoh also took his own share of the money. Some
documents purportedly issued by NNPC were handed over to the petitioner
and they include: Notice of Readiness( NOR); Authority to Board
Vessel( ATB), Sales Purchase Agreement. All the documents were confirmed
to be fake.
The suspects are in the custody of the EFCC and would soon be charged to court.
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