Six men have been remanded for stealing and receiving cosmetics worth N900m, kept in nine containers.
The suspects were remanded by a Federal High Court sitting in Lagos on Monday.
The judge in charge of the case, Justice Abimbola Awogboro ordered that the suspects should remain in the custody of the Nigeria Correctional Service (NCoS) pending the conclusion of their case.
The defendants, Akinmade Oluwaseyi, Michael Okwu, Emmanuel Igbru, Michael Peter, Bright Ogungbeje and Kingsley Onobrakpeya, are facing three counts of conspiracy, stealing and receiving stolen goods, charges preferred against them by the Tincan Island Police Command, Apapa, Lagos State.
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Justice Awogboro remanded them after they pleaded not guilty to the charges.
According to the prosecutor, Mr A. J. Dagbo, the defendants, alongside others now at large, had between June 19 and 21, 2022, at Tincan Island Container Terminal, Nigerian Ports Authority, Tincan Island Port, Apapa, Lagos, conspired among themselves and allegedly stole nine containers housing the cosmetics, such as body cream, Vaseline, face soap and other valuable items.
The prosecutor particularly accused the duo of Ogungbeje and Onobrakpeya of receiving the nine stolen containers housing the cosmetics from Peter on June 22, 2022, and using a MV Aquilla tugboat to convey them to an unknown destination.
The defendants, however, denied the allegations.