Anti-corruption and elections / EFCC

Court Jails Contractor For Issuance Of Dud Cheque

Justice A.T Mohammed of the Federal High Court, sitting in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, has convicted and sentenced a contractor, Mr. Ikechukwu Francis Wopara to one year imprisonment, for 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 (Eight Million Two Hundred And Twenty Five Thousand Naira) from a victim, Meadoil Limited, under a false pr…