Four persons, including a woman
were docked yesterday before Justice Binta Nyako of the Federal High Court
sitting in Maitama, Abuja over a crude oil scam.
They face a nine-count charge of
conspiracy, forgery and obtaining $1m by false pretence from an American.
The four accused are Umar Audu
Bida, Truth Igogori, Ifenyinwa Nwankwesiri and Ogechukwu Obaji. They obtained
the money with the promise that they would supply the American two million
barrels of Bonny Light Crude.
The accused were arraigned by
the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission alongside four companies:
Universal Contractors, Lambda Energy Services Limited, Double Wonder Concept
Limited, and ICS Energy Services Limited.
Bida and his co-accused sometime
in 2014 allegedly conspired to defraud one Donald Latella of North Park LLC of
$1million under the pretext of supplying about two million barrels of Bonny
Light Crude Oil.
The accused persons pleaded not
guilty to the charge.
Justice Nyako adjourned to
Thursday, February 16, 2017, for hearing of the bail applications and ordered
that the accused persons to be remanded in prison custody
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