An oil and gas businessman, Ernest Uduebor, has been jailed for one year for being in possession of a forged Fidelity Bank draft to the tune of N100m.
The sentence was handed over to the businessman by a Lagos Special Offences Court sitting in the Ikeja area of the state on Tuesday.
The convict pleaded guilty to one count of being in possession of a forged document.
Delivering his judgment, the presiding judge, Justice Ramon Oshodi, convicted and sentenced him to jail.
On January 27, 2023, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) arraigned Uduebor alongside Oladepo Babatunde, Funmilayo Oladimeji and Maclean Surulere.
The suspects were arraigned on a seven-count bordering on conspiracy, forgery and possession of fraudulent documents.
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The convict committed the offence on January 28, 2022, the agency’s prosecuting counsel, Mr Samuel Daji, told the court.
They were said to have conspired to forge several Fidelity Bank managers’ cheques purporting the same to be issued by the bank in favour of So Deep Energy and Logistics Limited.
The defendants pleaded not guilty to all the charges preferred against them.
In view of their plea, the prosecution counsel, Daji, asked the court for a trial date.
“We also urge the court to remand the defendants at the correctional facility,” he said.
Meanwhile, police operatives in a combined effort with the Ekrerhavwe Community Vigilante in Agbarho, Ughelli North Local Government Area of Delta State have arrested a suspected armed robber/cultist, Kingsley Vejeta who has been terrorising Ekrerhavwe community and its environs in Delta State.
Other gang members were said to have escaped from the crime scene.
The police also recovered seven locally made cut-to-size guns, and four (4) live cartridges from the suspect’s hideout.
The Delta State Police Command confirmed the report in a statement signed by the Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Bright Edafe.
Edafe said, “During the course of investigation and interrogation of the suspect, he made useful statement and at about 0230 hours, he led the Police to the hideout of his other gang members at Ekrehavwe, Agbarho in Ughelli North LGA where on sighting the Police, they took to their heels.”