Ex-NIMASA Director bags seven years for N1.5b fraud
CASE NUMBER 10955:
Ex-NIMASA Director bags seven years for N1.5b fraud

Click the thumbnails, below for larger photos
Alleged Perpetrators(s)
Ezekiel Bala Agaba

Location (Town / State)
Ikoyi, Lagos

Date of Event
15 Jul 2020

Date of republication
15 July every year


Case category (Choose all that apply)
fraud
other

Case Summary
Ikoyi High Court has sentenced a former Executive Director of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA), Captain Ezekiel Bala Agaba, to seven years imprisonment for laundering N1.5 billion.

Full story
Agaba, who was in charge of maritime, safety and shipping, was said to have looted the money from the agency. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) charged him, Patrick Akpolobokem, former director general of NIMASA, and two others in 2015 on a 22-count charge of allegedly diverting N2.6 billion from NIMASA's coffers between December 2013 and May 2015.
Akpobolokemi has since been discharged by the court of appeal while the EFCC withdrew charges against two other defendants, leaving only Agaba.
Delivering the judgment on Thursday, Ibrahim Buba, the judge, held that the EFCC proved the charges against Agaba beyond reasonable doubts.

Photo credit: https://www.ripplesnigeria.com/laundering-of-n1-5bn-ex-nimasa-director-agaba-sentenced-dsd-to-seven-years-in-jail/

External links/URLs
https://pmnewsnigeria.com/2020/07/15/just-in-captain-bala-agaba-ex-nimasa-director-jailed-7-years/
https://www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/2020/07/15/ex-nimasa-executive-director-jailed-7yrs-for-n1-5bn-fraud/



Search the site

Most recent submissions:

Fraud: Ex-banker jailed 98 years, to return N49m and $368000

Oreoluwa Adesakin, a former employee of First Bank of Nigeria Limited, was sentenced to 98 years in prison on Monday. . more >>

Court of Appeal affirms ex-bank Managing director conviction for 19bn Fraud

The conviction and subsequent sentencing of two former executives of Finbank Plc were upheld by the Court of Appeal at Tafawa Balewa Square in Lagos. . more >>

Bank Manager Jailed One Year for N200 Million Fraud

Tajudeen Yusuf, a former branch manager of Skye Bank in Jos, was convicted on Thursday by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission. He appeared in front of Justice Ambrose Alagwa of the Federal High Court in Jos. . more >>

Banker bags 12 years jail term over N8bn Scam

Ademola Oni, a former banker with Wema Bank Nigeria Plc, was found guilty and sentenced to 12 years in prison for conspiracy and money laundering by Justice Joyce Abdulmalik of the Federal High Court in Ibadan, Oyo State. . more >>

A former Nigerian Official Gets 5 Years for Pandemic Fraud in US

Abidemi Rufai, a former aide to Ogun State Governor Dapo Abiodun, was sentenced to 5 years in prison in U.S. District Court in Tacoma for wire fraud and aggravated identity theft for attempting to steal nearly $2.4 million from the United States government, including approximately $500,000 in pandemic-related unemployment benefits. . more >>