EFCC Arraigns Company MD For N37m Oil Fraud

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, on Monday, charged the 41-year-old Managing Director of Bravem Services Limited, Ebioenang George, under the steady gaze of the Federal High Court in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, for his supposed inclusion in a N37m oil extortion. 


George was said to have acquired the total from his exploited people on the affection of providing them with 2,000,000 barrels of Bonny Light Crude. 

He was brought before Justice E. A. Obile by the Port Harcourt zonal office of the EFCC on 23 tallies verging on fabrication and acquiring by affectations. 

George, through his organization, Bravem Service Limited, while acting like a representative of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, supposedly acquired N37m from his unfortunate casualties on the guise of providing them with 2,000,000 barrels of Bonny Light unrefined. 

The charges read to some degree, "That you, Ebioenang Monday George, being the Managing Director of Bravem Services Limited, approximately March 11, 2015, at Port Harcourt, Rivers State, inside the purview of this respectable court, with aim to cheat, obtained the entirety of N19m from the ICS Energy Limited through your organization's record, Bravem Services Limited, domiciled in First Bank with account number 2016700822 by misrepresentations, when you introduced yourself as a representative of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation and fit for selling one freight conveying 2,000,000 barrels of Bonny Light unrefined petroleum, which you knew to be bogus and consequently dedicated an offense in opposition to Section 1(1) b of the Advance Fee Fraud and Other Related Offenses Act. No 14 of 2006 and culpable under Section 1(3) of a similar Act." 

The respondent, who was summoned close by his organization, Bravem Services Limited, be that as it may, argued not blameworthy to the charges. 

In light of the respondent's supplication, the arraigning counsel, N. A. Dodo, asked the court to fix a date for the beginning of preliminary. 

However, the resistance counsel, N. A. Obiecheton, implored the court for a short dismissal to empower her to document a bail application for the respondent. 

Equity Obile, be that as it may, requested that the respondent be remanded in the Port Harcourt Correctional Center, while the issue was deferred till April 7, 2020, for the beginning of preliminary.

March 10, 2020