The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) said yesterday it
has concluded arrangements to arraign seven more suspects in the on
going trial of individuals and organisations implicated by
investigations into the subsidy regime on imported fuel.
In a press statement signed by the commission’s acting head, media
and publicity, Mr Wilson Uwujaren, five of the suspects implicated in a
N5.4billion fuel subsidy scam are to be arraigned today before Justice
Lateefa Okunnu of the Lagos High Court, Ikeja, on a thirteen count
charge bordering on intent to defraud, stealing, forgery and altering.
EFCC said that the suspects which comprise of 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 the sum of N4,
460,130,797from 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)’’.
