To the Federal Government awaiting analysis and case of suspects in the $1.1bn Malabu Oil scam.
Justice John Tsoho accepted the adjustment anon afterwards the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission move an ex parte on Thursday.
The OPL 245, an oil acreage believed to be the better in Africa, was said accept been fraudulently acquired from the Federal Government by Malabu Oil and Gas Limited in 1998 and afterwards awash to oil giants, Shell and Agip, in a adumbral transactions.
While affective the appliance which was anachronous and filed on January 11, 2017, on Thursday, EFCC’s lawyer, Mr. Johnson Ojogbane, apprenticed the cloister to admission the adjustment awaiting the analysis and case of the suspects called in the scam.
Though, the EFCC had beforehand filed accuse adjoin some of the suspects, including the actual accomplished Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mr. Mohammed Adoke, the adjustment acquired by the EFCC on Thursday appeared to set the date for case of added suspects.
The added suspects called in the appliance were Shell Nigeria Ultra Deep Limited, Shell Nigeria Exploration Limited, Malabu Oil and Gas Limited “and added individuals”.
Ojogbane said on Thursday that the suspects were getting advised “in affiliation with acts of conspiracy, bribery, official bribery and money laundering”.
The EFCC had on December 20, 2016, answerable nine suspects, including Adoke, with annual to the $1.1bn scam.
Other accused bodies called in the accuse filed by the EFCC afore a Federal High Cloister in Abuja, were Etete, Aliyu Abubakar, Malabu Oil & Gas Ltd, Rocky Top Resource Ltd, Imperial Union Ltd, Novel Properties & Dev. Co. Ltd, Group Construction Ltd, Megatech Engineering Ltd.
The anti-graft agency, in the accuse with clothing number,FHC/ABJ/CR/268/2016, accused Adoke of illegally appointment over $800m purportedly meant for the acquirement of the OPL 245 to Etete, Malabu Oil & Gas Limited from a Federal Government account.
The EFCC aswell accused Aliyu, an oil magnate, who is the Chairman of A. A. Group and Rocky Top Services, of accepting $336,456,906.78.
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