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)’’.?
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