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Alleged $75,000 Fraud: EFCC Witness Tells Court How Businessman Defrauded Oil Firm
An operative of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Felicia Paul, on Monday, March 16, 2026, narrated before Justice Mojisola Dada of the Special Offences Court sitting in Ikeja, Lagos, how a businessman, Peter Otomewu, allegedly defrauded a petroleum services company, Virgin Forest Energy Limited, of $75,000. The witness told the court that the defendant obtained the money under false pretences by claiming he had a vessel, “MT AYSU,” capable of transhipping petroleum products from a mother vessel. The EFCC had earlier arraigned Otomewu and his company, Pebeto Enerji Limited,
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