Others the court said should be arrested are four foreigners that were accused of complicity in the alleged fraud- Raph Wetzels, Casula Roberto, Pujato Stefeno and Burrato Sebastiano.
Other Defendants in the substantive charge with suit No. CR/124/2017, are Shell Nigeria Exploration Production Company Ltd, Nigeria Agip Exploration Ltd, Eni SPA, Aliyu Abubakar and Malabu Oil & Gas Ltd. It maintained that the court has the power to issue warrant for the apprehension and production of the 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th and 9th Defendants, who it said: “are suspected to be presently hiding outside the jurisdiction of the court”.
According to the deponent: “That I am aware that apart from the instant charge, most of the Defendants herein have two other criminal charges filed against them by the Complainant/Applicant at the Federal High Court with charge numbers: FHC/ABJ/CR/39/17 and FHC/ABJ/CR/268/2016, respectively. “That the Nigeria Police and the INTERPOL and other relevant sister organisation have insisted that in addition to having a pending charge before a competent court, there must be a warrant of arrest to enable the organization to apprehend the Defendants.
EFCC said its investigations revealed that Malabu Oil & Gas Ltd secured OPL 245 through a fraudulent scheme involving high scale bribery and corruption by top management of the company and some government officials.
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