The Economic and Financial Crimes
Commission, has arraigned a former bank manager, Efe Egube and Ocean Energy
Trading and Services Limited, before Justice Oluwatoyi Ipaye of the Lagos High
Court sitting in Ikeja.
The Gist Plus Magazine learnt that the defendant, who was a branch
manager of the defunct Oceanic Bank now Ecobank, allegedly received a sum of
N90m from a customer, Alhaji Sanusi Kamba, to supply him (Kamba)petroleum
products.
Our correspondent gathered Kamba, who owns Aminu
Gandi Petroleum Limited, had paid the sum to the ex-banker sometime in January,
2008.
Egube, however, neither supplied the products nor
refunded the money to the marketer.
The defendant, who manages Energy Trading and
Services Limited, was subsequently brought before Ipaye on 18 counts bordering
on obtaining money by false pretence – to which he pleaded not guilty.
The charges read in part, “That you Efe Egube and
Ocean Energy Trading and Services Limited on or about January 22, 2008 within
the Ikeja Judicial Division of this Honourable Court, with Intent to defraud,
obtained the sum of N6m from Aminu Gandi Petroleum Limited, by falsely
representing that the money was part payment for the supply of petroleum
products from you to them which representation you knew to be false.”
The agency’s prosecution counsel, Ben Ubi, asked
for a trial date after the defendant pleaded not guilty to the offences.
Ubi said, “We will consider taking custody of the
defendant for one week and after the hearing of the bail application, we shall
pray that he should be remanded in the proper place of custody.”
The defence counsel, J. A. Obodoechi, informed
the court that she had filed an application for bail for the defendant and sued
for the remand of the defendant in EFCC custody considering his health.
Justice Ipaye adjourned the case to November 12,
2014 for hearing and ordered that the defendant be remanded in EFCC’s custody.
Additional report from Punch
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