The Financial and Monetary Crimes Fee has mentioned it has commenced investigation into the actions of eight suspected oil thieves in Rivers State.
The suspects have been transferred to the Port Harcourt Zone Command of the EFCC on January 10, 2024, by the Nigerian Navy Ahead Working Base, Akiama Highway, Bonny Island, Rivers State.
The EFCC, in an announcement on its web site, famous that the suspects have been arrested with an unquantified amount of illegally obtained LPG oil, also called diesel, alongside Bonny Channel.
In response to the Naval Hand-Over Officer, Lieutenant Commander GY Gwaza, the ship, MV Cabrini, and her eight crew members have been arrested throughout an operation on November 8, 2023.
Gwaza mentioned the suspected oil thieves have been handed over to the EFCC for additional investigation and attainable prosecution.
Reacting, Chief Inspector of the EFCC, Itoro Levi, who acquired the suspects on behalf of the EFCC, assured that thorough {and professional} investigation could be carried out within the matter.
She additionally thanked the Navy for its cooperation with the anti-graft company.
The PONS stories that the Navy on December 12, 2023, handed over three arrested suspects to the police for facilitating a pretend oil clearance for a naval vessel referred to as Mom Gabrini in Rivers State.
Whereas parading the suspects after a press convention, the Commander of the NNS Pathfinder, Commodore Desmond Igbo, mentioned the ship was intercepted on November 8 for suspected unlawful bunkering throughout actions of the Ahead Working Base within the Bonny Council of the state.
