EFCC Arraigns 2 Businessmen For Forgery

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), yesterday, arraigned a Port Harcourt businessman, Christian Odum, before Justice U. N Agomoh of the Federal High Court, Port Harcourt, on charges bordering on conspiracy, forgery and attempting to obtain money under false pretence. Odum was alleged to have used his company, Unichris International Limited to defraud Peter Akinyosoye, by claiming to be a staff of the Nigeria National Petroleum Company (NNPC). According to a statement signed by the EFCC spokesperson, Wilson Uwujaren, Odum and Stanley Alozie, who is still at large, defrauded Akinyosoye, on July 6, 2012, by obtaining the sum of N640,000 from him, claiming that the money will be used to purchase low pour fuel oil (LPFO). Akinyosoye’s company Abipet Nigeria Limited, had been contracted by Genuinelyness Outlook Limited, Lagos, to supply two trucks of the LPFO. Odum gave a fake NNPC/PPMC Ticket No. BB 036867 and NNPC/PPMC Bridging Note purported to have been issued by the NNPC to Akinyosoye. All efforts by Akinyosoye to get his money back from Odum and his cohort proved abortive. Justice Agomoh adjourned the matter to January 22 and February 5, 2015, respectively, for hearing of bail and commencement of trial.