The Financial and Monetary Crimes Fee, EFCC, has arraigned Amechi James Oduofor sooner than the Federal Top Courtroom in Benin Town, Edo State, over an alleged $285,000 crude oil rip-off involving a Singaporean, Jimmy Kee.
A observation through the company mentioned Oduofor used to be arraigned on Wednesday, October 21, 2026, through the EFCC’s Benin Zonal Directorate sooner than Justice C. A. Obiozor on an eight-count price bordering on forgery, impersonation and acquiring cash through false pretence.
The fee alleged that Oduofor got the cash from Kee through falsely claiming to be an professional of the Nigerian Nationwide Petroleum Company, NNPC, and significant a fictitious shipment reassignment rate for gentle crude oil from Nigeria.
Consistent with the EFCC, the defendant allegedly posed as Shiny Wilcox, an engineer and Table Supervisor, Operations, Offshore, of the NNPC, to persuade the Singaporean that the transaction used to be authentic.
The fee additional alleged that Oduofor created a fraudulent electronic mail account and used it to ship cast NNPC paperwork to Kee in an try to download the cash.
One of the most fees in opposition to him reads, “That you just Amechi James Oduofor, someday in 2020 inside the jurisdiction of this honourable court docket, did knowingly make a false file to wit: a false identification card of Nigeria Nationwide Petroleum Company with the identify Wilcox Shiny as a Table Supervisor – Operations Offshore Loading Petroleum, with intent that one Jimmy Kee, a Singaporean, might, within the trust that it’s authentic, be prompted to pay the combination sum of $285,000 (Two Hundred and 80-5 Thousand USD) to you and thereby dedicated an offence opposite to and punishable underneath Segment 1(2)(c) of the Miscellaneous Offences Act, CAP M17 of the Revised Version (Regulations of the Federation of Nigeria) 2007.”
Every other price accused Oduofor of knowingly changing a file described as a “Proforma Bill for Marine (ATB)” and sending it to Kee via an electronic mail account known as [email protected].
The price reads, “That you just Amechi James Oduofor, someday in 2020 inside the jurisdiction of this honourable court docket, did knowingly adjust a false file captioned ‘Proforma Bill for Marine (ATB)’ through sending the mentioned file by way of your electronic mail [email protected] to 1 Jimmy Kee with intent that the mentioned Jimmy Kee might, within the trust that it’s authentic, be prompted to pay the combination sum of $285,000 (Two Hundred and 80-5 Thousand USD) to you and thereby dedicated an offence opposite to and punishable underneath Segment 1(2)(2) of the Miscellaneous Offences Act, Cap M17 of the Revised Version (Regulations of the Federation of Nigeria) 2007.”
Oduofor pleaded “now not to blame” to the costs after they had been learn to him in court docket.
Following his plea, prosecution suggest I. M. Elodi requested the court docket to mend a date for trial and order that the defendant be remanded in a correctional facility.
Justice Obiozor adjourned the case till November 19, 2026, for listening to and ordered that Oduofor be remanded in a correctional facility.
