BREAKING! Court Sentences 14 Foreigners To Prison For Illegal Oil Deal

Justice Ibrahim Buba of a Federal High Court in Lagos on Friday convicted 14 foreigners of dealing in petroleum products in Nigeria without lawful authority.The judge found them guilty of dealing in

1,738.087 metric tons of petroleum product in Nigeria without lawful authority or licence as alleged by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission.Justice Buba sentenced 11 out of the 14
convicted foreigners to two years imprisonment with an option to a pay a fine of N2m each.The judge said the sentence would run from last year March when they were apprehended by the Nigerian Navy and handed over to the EFCC.Justice Buba, however, sentenced the remaining three convicts who had jumped bail and absconded to five years imprisonment without an option of fine.The three convicts who jumped bail are Russians.The judge convicted and sentenced them in absentia and issued a warrant for their arrest, emphasising that their jail term would commence on whatever day they are re-arrested.
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