A Port Harcourt Federal High Court has remanded Ebioenang Monday George to prison custody following his arraignment, last Monday by the Port Harcourt Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on 23-counts of forgery and obtaining by false pretence.
George, through his company, Bravem Service Limited, while posing as a staff of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), allegedly obtained N37million from his victim in the guise of helping to supply them with two million barrels of Bonny Light Crude.
He was arraigned before the Federal High Court presided over by Justice E. A. Obile in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital.
The defendant, who was docked alongside his company, Bravem Services Limited, however, pleaded not guilty to the charges.
One of the counts reads: “That you Ebioenang Monday George being the managing director of Bravem Services Limited on or about the 11th March, 2015 at Port Harcourt, Rivers State within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court, with intent to defraud did obtain the sum of N19million from I. C. S. Energy Limited through your company’s account, Bravem Services Limited domiciled in First Bank Plc with account number 2016700822 by false pretence, when you presented yourself as a staff of Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) and capable of selling one cargo carrying two million barrels of Bonny Light Crude Oil, a pretence you knew to be false and thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 1(1) b of the Advance Fee Fraud and Other Related Offences Act. No 14 of 2006 and punishable under Section 1(3) of the same Act”.
