The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has concluded arrangements to arraign seven more suspects in the ongoing trial of individuals and organisations implicated by the investigation into the subsidy regime on imported fuel.
Five of the suspects implicated in a N5.4 billion fuel subsidy scam are to be arraigned on Monday before Justice Lateefa Okunnu of the Lagos High Court, Ikeja on a 13 count charge bordering on intent to defraud, stealing, forgery and altering.
The suspects, comprising one company and four individuals, are: Nasaman Oil Services Limited, Mamman Nasir Ali, Christian Taylor, Oluwaseun Ogunbambo and Olabisi Abdul-Afeez (still at large).
Specifically, they are alleged to have obtained N4,460,130,797.94 from the Federal Government of Nigeria by falsely claiming that the sum represented subsidy accruing to them under the petroleum support fund for the importation of 61,049,937.00 litres of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS).
One of the charges reads: “Nasaman Oil Services Ltd, Mamman Nasir Ali, Christian Taylor, Oluwaseun Ogunbambo and Olabisi Abdul-Afeez (still at large) between 2010 and 2012 in Lagos within the Ikeja Judicial Division with intent to defraud conspired to obtain the sum of N2.230,065,398.97 (Two Billion, Two Hundred and Thirty Million, Sixty Five Thousand and Ninety Eight Naira Kobo Only) from the Federal Government of Nigeria by falsely claiming that the sum represented subsidy accruing to Nasaman Oil Services Ltd under the petroleum support fund for the importation of 30,524,968.50 litres of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) which Nasaman Oils Services Ltd purported to have purchased from SEATAC Petroleum Ltd to British Virgin Islands and imported into Nigeria through MT Liquid Fortune Ex Mt Overseas Lima, which representation you know to be false.”
A second charge reads: “Nasaman Oil Services Ltd, Mamman Nasir Ali, Christian Taylor, Oluwaseun Ogunbambo and Olabisi Abdul-Afeez (still at large) on or about the 11th day of April 2012 at Lagos within the Ikeja Judicial Division with intent to defraud conspired to obtain the sum of N1,480,074,125.61 (One Billion Four Hundred and Eighty Million, Seventy Four Thousand, One Hundred and Twenty Five Naira, Sixty One Kobo Only) from the Federal Government of Nigeria by falsely claiming that the sum represented subsidy accruing to Nasaman Oil Services Ltd under the petroleum support fund for the importation of 20,492,982.50 litres of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) which Nasaman Oils Services Ltd purported to have purchased from SEATAC Petroleum Ltd to British Virgin Islands and imported into Nigeria through MT Liquid Fortune Ex Mt Hellenic Blue and Ex Mt. Milleura which representation you know to be false.”
The remaining two suspects, Rowaye Jubril and Brila Energy Limited, will also be arraigned before Justice Okunnu on Tuesday November 13, 2012 on a 13 count criminal charge of conspiracy, stealing, forgery and altering.
The duo are alleged to have obtained N963,796,199.85 from the Federal Government by falsely representing the sum as subsidy accruing to them for the importation of 13,155,807MT or 17,393,767 litres of Premium Motor Spirit.
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