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Mr Abdulrasheed Bawa, the newly-appointed Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), on Wednesday appeared before an Ikeja High Court to testify as a prosecution witness in a N1.4 billion oil subsidy fraud case.
The 40-year-old Bawa, who was confirmed the EFCC Chairman by the Senate on Feb. 24, assumed office on March 5.
He was in court to testify in a case involving Nadabo Energy and its Chairman, Abubakar Peters.
The case is one of alleged fraud cases that Bawa investigated when he was an operative of the EFCC.
The anti-graft agency is prosecuting the defendants for allegedly obtaining N1.4 billion from the Federal Government as oil subsidy, using forged documents.
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A Lagos State High Court, Ikeja, on Wednesday, adjourned further proceedings in a 1.4 billion naira fraud trial involving an oil company, Nadabo Energy Ltd and its Chairman till April 28.
The presiding judge, Justice Christopher Balogun gave the adjournment to enable the court rule on the admissibility of the document sought to be tender by the Prosecutor.
The chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Abdulrasheed Bawa, was led in evidence by the prosecution counsel, Seidu Atteh, to narrate the outcome of their investigation in the alleged offences.
Mr Bawa said he analysed the email correspondences of the defendants and found out that contrary to their claim, they took about six million litres of petrol from a mother vessel to their chartered vessel.