...As Rowaye Jubril & Brila Energy Bag 10 Years for N963m Oil Fraud
The Economic
and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC,
on Thursday, March 16, 2017,
secured the conviction of Rowaye
Jubril, Managing Director, Brila
Energy Limited, before Justice
Lateefa Okunnu of the State High Court, sitting in Ikeja, Lagos.
The convict
was arraigned alongside his company,
Brila Energy Limited, sometime in
November 2012 on a 13-count charge bordering on forgery and obtaining money by
false pretence to the tune of N963,796,199.85 (Nine Hundred and Sixty-three
Million Seven Hundred and Ninety-six Thousand One Hundred and Ninety-nine Naira
Eighty-five Kobo).
The convict
had defrauded the Federal Government by
falsely claiming, through a forged
document, that the money represented the subsidy accrued to Brila Energy
Limited under the Petroleum Support Fund for the importation of 13,
155,807MT or 17,393,767 litres of
Petroleum Motor Spirit, PMS.
The convict
had pleaded not guilty to the charges,
thereby setting the stage for his trial.
The
prosecution counsel, S. K. Atteh, in the course of the trial, tendered several documents that were admitted
in evidence by the court and presented witnesses who testified against the
accused.
Counsel to
the defendant had pleaded with the court to temper justice with mercy, saying that the accused was hypertensive and
diabetic.
Delivering
her judgement, Justice Okunnu sentenced the accused to 10 years imprisonment
and ordered the company to pay the sum of N963, 796,199.85m in restitution to the Federal Government.
Wilson
Uwujaren
Head Media
& Publicity
16 March,
2017
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