A Federal High Court sitting in Port Harcourt has sentenced an unlicensed petroleum product dealer to a 7-year jail sentence for defrauding a customer N10million (Ten Million Naira).
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission arraigned the suspect identified as Johnson Abraham Ukiwe before Justice Adamu Turaki Mohammed of the Federal High Court in Port Harcourt, Rivers State.
It was gathered that the convict was arraigned on a 5-count charge of dealing in petroleum products without the appropriate license and obtaining money under pretence.
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He reportedly obtained the sum of N10, 055,000.00 (Ten Million, Fifty-five Thousand Naira) from Exploit Energy Ltd, between 27 January and 1 February 2016 on the promise of supplying two truckloads of petroleum product but he never did.
Ukiwe who was ordered to restitute his victim Exploit Energy Ltd, the said sum of N10million following Section 11 of Advance Fee Fraud and Other Related Offences Act, 2006, was imprisoned without an option of fine.
In the statement released by the EFCC, Justice Adamu said that his judgment would “serve as a warning and deterrent to other fraudsters who specialise in defrauding unsuspecting citizens through dubious business dealings.”
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