Managing director of Ontario Oil and Gas,
Adaoha Ugo-Ndagi, a convicted fuel subsidy
fraudster, on Friday collapsed in court before
she was sentenced.
She was convicted alongside Walter
Wagbatsoma, an oil marketer, on eight counts
of fraud.
The duo forged documents to receive N1.9bn
from the government for petroleum products
they did not supply.
Delivering her judgment, Lateefat Okunnu,
justice of the Lagos state high court, Ikeja,
held that the defendants deliberately forged
documents to swindle the government.
"On strength of the testimonies of the
prosecution witnesses and the volumes of
material evidence, I hereby find the defendants
guilty on all counts, and they are hereby
convicted," she held.
When the proceedings resumed after a break,
the judge moved to sentence the convicts, but
Ugo-Ndagi passed out in the dock.
She then adjourned the case to January 16 for
sentencing.
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