The Kaduna Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has arraigned one Wasila Musa Ibrahim and her company, Najaatu Petroleum Limited, before Justice Mohammed Nasir Yunusa at the Federal High Court, Kano.
The woman and the firm were arraigned on Thursday on a 10-count charge bordering on money laundering and tax evasion.
The complainant alleged that sometime in 2020 the defendant approached him with a business proposal for the supply of Diesel and Premium Motor Spirit (petrol) to a company known as Lee Group.
The defendant collected a sum of N38.2 million from the complainant and his family members to execute the business, but diverted the money for her personal use.
When the complainant requested for a refund, the defendant claimed she gave the money to one Alhaji Lawan, who had absconded and could not be reached.
In the course of investigation, it was discovered that there was no evidence to show that the defendant invested the said money.
It was also discovered that her company, Najaatu Petroleum Limited, evaded tax payment from January 2013 to 2020.
One of the counts reads: “That you, Wasila Musa Ibrahim ‘F’, sometime in October, 2020, in Kano within the Jurisdiction of this Honourable Court did make cash payment of the sum of N38,200,000.00(Thirty Eight Million and Two Hundred Thousand Naira) only to one Alhaji Lawan for the purchase of five (5) trucks of Diesel without passing through a financial institution and you thereby committed an offence…
