Court Sentences Businessman To ’60 Years’ Imprisonment For Fraud
The Ikeja Special Offences Court in Lagos has sentenced a businessman to 60 years imprisonment over N184 million fraud. NAIRAMETRICS reports.
Justice Sherifat Solebo sentenced the defendant, Chukwuemeka Ekwunife after finding him guilty on counts one to six of the charges proffered against him by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). Information Guide Nigeria
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The judge sentenced him to 10 years in imprisonment for each of the six-count charges of which the terms are to run concurrently. jamb results
Mr. Ekwunife was arraigned on February 19, 2018, alongside his company, Structured Energy Limited, on an amended eight counts bordering on stealing by fraudulent conversion of an offence contrary to sections 278(1)(b), (2)(f) and 285(1) of the Criminal Code Law of Lagos State of Nigeria 2011.
In one of the charges, the EFCC alleged that on June 4, 2015, Mr. Ekwunife and Structured Energy Limited dishonestly converted the sum of N85 million to their own use paid to them by M.R.S. Oil and Gas Company Limited, property of Nepal Oil and Gas Limited.
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