A contractor, Ikechukwu Francis Wopara has been convicted and sentenced to one-year imprisonment by Justice A.T Mohammed of the Federal High Court, sitting in Port Harcourt, for the issuance of a dud cheque.
The convict was arraigned and brought to trial by the Port Harcourt’s Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on an amended one-count charge bordering on Advance Fee Fraud.
Specifically, he obtained forty-nine drums of Silicon Fluid worth N8.225,000 from a victim, Meadoil Limited, under a false pretence of running a contract for the supply of the product to a leading oil company in the South-South.
He neither supplied the product to the oil company nor returned the money to the victim.
The Offence was contrary to Section 1(1)(b) of the Advance Fee Fraud and Other Fraud Related Offences Act 2006 and punishable under Section 1(3) of the same Act”.
Justice Mohammed found Wopara guilty on the one-count charge, convicted and sentenced him to one year imprisonment and also convicted his company: F.R. Resources with a fine of N50,000 (Fifty Thousand Naira) only.
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