Thursday, July 10, 2014 arraigned the duo of Orum
Chinedu and Onyiye Chima before Justice S.M
Shaibu of the Federal High Court, Owerri on a 5-
count charge bordering on conspiracy and obtaining
money by false pretence.
The accused persons allegedly obtained the sum of
N20, 000,000:00 from one Ekwe Augustine Mark
under the pretext that they would help him secure an
oil pipeline laying contract in Awa Community in
Imo State from oil major, Addax Petroleum.
They allegedly perfected the scam by presenting
themselves as staff of the oil company will powers to
influence the contract award.
The accused persons however, pleaded not guilty to
the charges preferred against them.
One of the counts reads; "that you Orum Chinedu,
Ifeanyi Jude Owum, Onyiye Chima, between the 16th
day of August, 2013 and 19th day of December, 2013
at Owerri, Imo State, within the Jurisdiction of this
honourable court, with intent to defraud did obtain
the sum of Four Million, Eight Hundred and Forty
Thousand Naira from Ekwe Augustine Mark through
an Ecobank account number 2351110574 belonging
to Nwakama Henson Chinedu under the false
pretence that there is an Addax Petroleum contract
for laying of '4' inches steel oil pipe with Addax
Petroleum for which you will recommend Ekwe
Augustine Mark to Addax Petroleum, a pretext you
knew to be false and thereby committed an offence
contrary to section 1(1)(a) of the Advance Fee Fraud
and Other Fraud Related Offences Act, 2006 and
punishable under section 1(3) of the same Act".
The bail application for the accused persons is slated
for hearing today, July 11, 2014.
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