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EFCC Detains Fake NNPC Director Over N100 Million Frauds

Oluwadara Akingbohungbe
By Oluwadara Akingbohungbe
Published: September 9, 2024
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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC of the Kaduna Zonal Directorate has charged one Ibrahim Shuaibu before Justice Darius Khobo of the Kaduna State High Court sitting in Kaduna State for fraud.

As stated on Monday on EFCC’s X.com account, Shuaibu is facing seven charges, including criminal breach of trust, impersonation and receiving under false pretenses, huge amount of naira.

The first charge reads as follows: “You, Nuhu Ibrahim Shuaibu (aka Ishaku Abdulrazak) (M) and Iya Garba (now deceased) conspired among yourselves in 2017 in Kaduna, in the judicial division of this honorable court, to commit an act .. ie: obtaining money under false pretenses and therefore committing an offense contrary to section 8(a) of the Cash Advance and Other Fraud Act 2006 punishable in article 1(3) of the same law.

Another wrote: “That you, Nuhu Ibrahim Shuaibu (aka Ishaku Abdulrazak) (M) in 2018 in Kaduna in the Judicial Division of this honorable court, with the intention of defraud, received the total sum of N47,050,000.00 ( forty-seven million and fifty thousand naira) from one Faisal Safiyanu, when you claimed to supply him with petroleum products, a claim which you knew to be false and thus committed an offense contrary to section 1(1)(a) of the Advance Fee Fraud and Other Act 2006 for offenses related to fraud and punishable under Section 1(3) of the same Act.

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He pleaded “not guilty” to all the charges when they were read, prompting the prosecution’s attorney, Lawal to ask the court to set a trial date.

His lawyer, AbdulKareem Audu, did apply for bail.

Justice Khobo then ordered that the accused be remanded in EFCC custody.

Shuaibu’s prosecution commenced in 2017 when he pretended as the executive director of the NNPC Group, offering to help his victim purchase more than 2,000 liters of petroleum products.

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The victim later sent the agreed payment to Shuaibu’s bank accounts in several installments.

Shuaibu at the aftermath of acceptinh the fund did not deliver the products or return the money to the victim.

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