A Lagos Special Offences Court sitting in Ikeja, on Tuesday sentenced a businessman, Ernest Uduebor, who is into oil and gas, to one-year imprisonment for being in possession of a forged Fidelity Bank draft to the tune of N100m. Justice Ramon Oshodi convicted and sentenced him after he pleaded guilty to one count of being in possession of a forged document. EFCC’s prosecuting counsel, Mr Samuel Daji, told the court that Uduebor committed the offence on January 28, 2022. The commission said they conspired to forge several Fidelity Bank managers’ cheques purporting the same to be issued by the bank in favour of So Deep Energy and Logistics Limited. The defendants pleaded not guilty to all the charges preferred against them.

Source: Punch March 08, 2023 12:17 UTC