EFCC declares German wanted over subsidy scam

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has declared wanted one Amzat Mohmood, a German citizen for alleged involvement in petroleum subsidy scam.

Spokesman of the anti-graft agency, Wilson Uwujaren announced this yesterday at a press conference in Abuja.

Uwujaren said Mohmood who is a German of Pakistani extraction is an international petroleum trader, whose company Nimex Petroleum Limited is involved in an ongoing petroleum subsidy scam trial.

Other companies under investigations include; ASB Investment, Aro Samuel Bamidele and Abiodun Kayode Bankole who are already standing trial before a Lagos State High Court, Ikeja.

“Nimex Petroleum Limited is the company that allegedly sold and shipped 38,010,413 litres of Premium Motor Spirit to the defendants - ASB Investment, Aro Samuel Bamidele and Abiodun Kayode Bankole - for which they allegedly received N1.3 buillion as subsidy for products that were never supplied,” said Uwujaren.

He also said two Indian nationals; Sailesh Kumar Singh and Chadrashekar Sharma were successfully prosecuted by the commission and convicted by the court.

Uwujaren said the convicts were among oil thieves arrested in Brass, Bayelsa State in 2012 by the Joint Task Force with 157,822 litres of stolen crude oil.

The convicts were sentenced to 15 years imprisonment each.

Uwujaren further said the Commission from January 2013 to date investigated 21 cases of crude oil theft, arrested 81 suspects, while 11 tanker vessels, 16 tanker trucks were recovered.