The Port Harcourt’s Zonal Office of the Economic and
Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Friday, July 5, 2019 secured
final forfeiture of 244 (Two Hundred and Forty Four) vehicles and
petroleum products contained in each of the vehicles.
The
forfeiture order was granted by Justice I. M Sani of the Federal High
Court sitting in Port Harcourt, Rivers State. The forfeited vehicles
comprise 154 fuel tankers, a vessel, smaller passenger buses, cars and
sport utility vehicles.
The vehicles were
confiscated and impounded by the anti- bunkering patrol team of the
Nigerian Army, 6 Division, PortHarcourt. They were handed over to the
EFCC for investigations and prosecution.
Justice
Sani ordered that the EFCC, in conjunction with the Deputy Chief
Registrar of the Court, should conduct the sale of the vehicles and the
illegally refined petroleum products they were carrying while they were
arrested.
He also granted an order that the
Deputy Chief Registrar of the Court should transfer the proceeds of the
sale of the vehicles and petroleum products into the Consolidated
Revenue Account of the Federal Government.
The court had earlier granted an order of interim forfeiture of the vehicles on May 31, 2019.
