Alleged forgery: Police to arraign bank, oil firm, 7 others
(Nigeria) The police have filed a six-count bordering of conspiracy, forgery and fraud against an oil company, Maters Energy Oil and Gas Limited, and eight others before a Federal High Court sittin in Lagos.
Other accused in the charge are two female employees of UBA,
Tammy Adoki and Augustina Ezenwenkwe, who the police said had absconded and
were still at large.
The bank was charged to court for allegedly failing to do
due diligence and for being negligent to apply its internal control procedures
in the opening of an account in the name of one Mut-Hass Petroleum, which the
police alleged was fraudulent.
The police claimed that the bank allowed the said account to
be opened sometime in 2011 at one of its regional offices in Lagos in breach of
the provisions of the Bank and other Financial Institutions Act 2004.
For this alleged failure, police claimed that the bank was liable
to being punished under Section 7(3) of the Advanced Fee Fraud and other
related Offences Act 2006.
Its officials, Adoki, 36 and Ezenwenkwe, 39, were accused of
“facilitating, contributing or otherwise being involved in the failure of your
bank to exercise due diligence,” an offence which the police said was
punishable under Section 7(3)(b) of the Advanced Fee Fraud and other related
Offences Act 2006.
The other defendants
in the charge are 45-year-old Uche Ogah, Deji Somoye, 46; Felix Eribo, 43; Onu
Ogbonnaya, 41; and Sheidu Olayinka, 37.
The defendants and some other persons still at large were
accused of forging the signatures of one Mrs. Bridget Adeosun and Hassan
Olatunji, with the intent that same might be acted upon as if they were
genuine.
They were also accused of forging a document titled,
“Ordinary Resolution of Mut-Hass Petroleum Limited,” which the police claimed
was contrary to Section 465 of Criminal Code, Laws of the Federation of
Nigeria, 2004 and punishable under Section 467 of the same law.
They were said to have committed the alleged offences in
Ikeja GRA, Lagos sometime in August 2011.
When the case was called on Thursday, the police prosecutor,
Mr. Henry Obiazi, said the police were still making efforts to bring the
suspects to court.
Justice Idris consequently adjourned till June 2, 2016 for
the police to bring the suspects to court for arraignment.
Listed as the 3rd accused in the charge marked, FHC/199c/16, filed
before Justice Mohammed Idris, is a commercial bank, United Bank for Africa.
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