CASE NUMBER 10896:

DANGOTE EMPLOYEES JAILED FOR N15 MILLION FRAUD

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Alleged Perpetrators(s)

Adewale Dalmeida Ibrahim Lawal Afeez Olaniba Lukman Adam

Location (Town / State)

Ogun, Ogun

Date of Event

14 Jan 2019

Date of republication

14 January every year

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Case Summary

The High Court of Ogun State convicted four employees of Dangote who stole N15 Million Naira from their employer.

Full story

Four employees of the Dangote Group of Companies, namely Adewale Dalmeida, Ibrahim Lawal, Afeez Olaniba and Lukman Adam, were arraigned before Justice O. J. Bamgbose on two counts of conspiracy and stealing by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Lagos Zone on 6th December, 2018,. They had pleaded not guilty to the charges which were preferred against them.

The accused persons had however changed their plea of not guilty to guilty, after engaging in a plea bargain arrangement with Prosecution on 16th December, 2018.

The EFCC had alleged that a petition was received from the company that Dalmeida, a fleet analyst, whose job schedule included monitoring, tracking and reporting trucks of Dangote Cement, Ibese Plant, connived with the chief driver of the company, Lawal, and a Ghanaian driver, Adam, and Olaniba, who worked as an agent at the Nigerian-Benin border, to defraud the company of N15m.

It was further alleged that the defendants diverted nine trucks conveying 800 bags of cement each, valued at over N15m, which were meant to be delivered to the company’s customers in Togo. The EFCC further claimed that the defendants perpetrated the act through the use of fake identity cards and truck number plates.

In the judgment delivered by Justice Bamgbose of the High Court of Ogun State on 14th January, 2019, the court held that it the found the defendants guilty of the two counts and thereafter sentenced them to various prison terms. The Court held as follows:

“The first defendant is sentenced to two and a half years on each count and it shall run concurrently from the date that he was arrested and detained, being September 14, 2018. The money and property recovered from him shall be forfeited to Dangote Cement and he shall enter into a bond with the EFCC to be of good character and never to commit any crime again within Nigeria and overseas.
“The second defendant is sentenced to eight months on each count and to run concurrently from September 12, 2018. The sum of N1.6m recovered from him shall be forfeited to Dangote Cement and after, he shall enter into a bond with the EFCC.
“The third defendant is sentenced to eight months on each count and to run concurrently from the date of arrest. The total sum of N900,000 recovered from him shall be forfeited to Dangote Cement and after, he shall enter into a bond with the EFCC.
“The fourth defendant is sentenced to eight months on each count and to run concurrently from the date he was arrested and detained. The money recovered from him shall be forfeited to Dangote Cement and after the term, he shall enter into a bond with the EFCC to be of good character and never to commit any crime again within Nigeria and overseas.”

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