Court remands four directors of oil company over alleged £2.55bn fraud

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A Federal High Court in Lagos on Thursday ordered the remand of four directors of Petrol Union Oil and Gas Company Ltd., over alleged £2.556 billion fraud.

The judge, Mohammed Liman, ordered the remand of the defendants at a custodial centre after their arraignment on a seven-count charge of fraud preferred by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission .The defendants are charged alongside one Isaac Okpala, described as deceased.The anti-graft agency alleged that they fraudulently procured a Barclays Bank cheque for £2.

The EFCC also accused the defendants of forging a Barclays Bank cheque dated December 29, 1994 for £2.556 billion made payable to Gladstone Kukoyi and Associates, purporting the said cheque to be meant for foreign investment in the construction of three refineries and petrochemical complex in Nigeria.

 

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