Economic and Financial Crimes Commission
has declared two oil marketers, who are standing trial before a Lagos
High Court, Ikeja, for alleged oil subsidy fraud, Messrs Seun Ogunbambo
and Habila Theck, wanted.
The anti-graft agency’s Head, Media and
Publicity, Wilson Uwujaren, declared them wanted on Tuesday after they
were said to have evaded trial.
Ogunbambo and Theck are the Managing
Director and the General Manager of Fargo Petroleum and Gas Limited,
respectively. The duo, along with the company, are facing charges of
N976.6m fuel subsidy fraud.
Apart from that, Ogunbambo is facing
separate charges of about N4.46bn fuel subsidy fraud along with Mamman,
son of former Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Ahmadu Ali, and
Christian Taylor, before Justice Adeniyi Onigbanjo
He and his firm, Adeline Investment, is
also facing separate N430m bank fraud charges before another judge,
Justice Olabisi Akinlade, of the Lagos High Court in Ikeja.
Uwujaren, in his statement on Tuesday,
described Ogunbambo as fair in complexion who “speaks English and
Yoruba, while Theck is fluent in English and Hausa languages”.
“Ogunbambo’s last known address is 2
Olamiyuyan Crescent, Ikoyi, Lagos while Theck’s is 89 Buck Field, Yaba,
Lagos”, the Commission added.
Both Justices Onigbanjo and Onigbanjo
had separately denied bail to Ogunbambo, but the Court of Appeal, Lagos
reversed their decisions earlier in the year.
Onigbanjo was on June 25, 2013 forced to
issue a bench warrant for the arrest of the accused but the EFCC had
not been able execute the court’s order.
EFCC, had while urging the judges to
refuse Ogunbambo’s application in 2012, said it was discovered that the
accused was still able to travel out of Nigeria after both Nigerian and
British passports were seized from him in 2010.
On February 14, 2013, Onigbanjo had
granted an ex-parte application filed by the EFCC, ordering that the
accused person’s assets be frozen pending the completion of his trial.
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just see the chain of criminality by these BUSINESS men. but where is OTEDOLA and his bribery accusation which he has admitted to? these are the kind of pple our Government is dealing with. what a shame.
ReplyDeleteGood morning EFCC.
ReplyDeleteThe court of appeal judges that overturned the denial of bail by the lower court should be arrested. They have been probably bribed to do that.
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