A Federal High Court in Lagos on Thursday convicted a former Acting Director-General of Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, NIMASA, Mr. Calistus Obi, over involvement in N136 million fraud.
Obi, along with one Alu Dismas, was charged by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC.
Dismas was an aide to a former Director General of NIMASA, Patrick Akpobolokemi.
Two companies were also charged.
They are Grand Pact Limited and Global Seal Investment Limited.
According to the EFCC, the defendants who committed the offences on August 5, 2014, conspired to convert the money from NIMASA, with the knowledge that it was a proceed of stealing.
The offences were in contravention of the provisions of Sections 15 and 18(a) of the Money Laundering Prohibitions (Amendment) Act, 2012.
EFCC had charged Obi and others to court over the fraud and they were convicted on Thursday by Justice Mojisola Olatoregum after they were found guilty of the charges.
While the court found Obi guilty of counts five, six, seven and eight of the charge, Dismas was said to be guilty of counts two and four of the charge.
The court however discharged the defendants of the first and third count charge.
The case was adjourned till May 28 to hear the convicts’ plea for mercy.
The court will after the plea deliver its judgement.
Already, the court had ordered that the defendants should be remanded in prison pending the sentencing.
