EFCC Reveals Evidence
Against P&ID Director.
Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, has tendered
additional evidence against MICAD Project City Services Limited, and James
Nolan, a Director of Process and Industrial Development Limited, before Justice
Nora Egwuatu of the Federal High Court, sitting in Abuja.
A statement by the Head, Media and Publicity of the EFCC, Dele
Oyewale said, the criminal case stemmed from controversial Gas Supply
Processing Agreement between Process and Industrial Development and the
Federal Government of Nigeria, while, P&ID had obtained a $11bn award
against the Federal Government over the botched contract, but reprieve came the way of the country last October
when a London arbitration court set aside the $11bn award, holding that the
contract was fraudulently secured.
MICAD Project City Services Limited and James Nolan are facing
20 counts bordering on “obtaining by false pretense, money laundering and
criminal conversion of proceeds of crime, to the tune N151million naira, while,
in February, the International Criminal Police Organisation said, it had
arrested Nolan, in Italy after he jumped bail in Nigeria 2022, in the ongoing
$9.6bn P&ID scandal.
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