Court Sentence Man To 175years Imprisonment
A federal high court sitting in Port-Harcourt, Rivers State has convicted and sentenced a fake oil magnate Dr. Vincent Ayigor to 175 years imprisonment for duping an American, Joseph Crews the sum of $629,287 in a crude oil supply scam.
Justice A.T Mohammed convicted and sentenced Ayigor after he was found guilty of all the 25 charges brought against him by the Port-Harcourt zonal command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission.
According to the EFCC’s spokesperson, Wilson Uwujaren, Ayigor was arraigned alongside his company Vanyigor concept limited before Justice M.A Liman of the federal high court sitting in Port-Harcourt on 25-count charges bordering on conspiracy, uttering, forgery and obtaining money by false pretences.
One of the count reads: “that you Dr Vincent Anyigor, Vanyigor concepts limited and others at large on or about 15th day of October 2010 at Port-Harcourt, within the jurisdiction of this honourable court with intent to defraud, obtained a sum of $243,000 from one Joseph I. Crews, an American citizen as part payment of the cost price for the logistics to supply them 6 million barrels of Bonny light crude oil which you claimed to have the capability to deliver to them, which pretext you knew to be false and thereby committed an offence contrary to section 1(1)(b) of the advance fee fraud and other fraud related offences Act 2006 and punishable under section 1(3) of the same act.
In his judgement, Justice Mohammed found Anyigor guilty of all the 25 charges, convicted and sentenced him to seven years imprisonment on each of the counts, totalling 175 years which are to run concurrently from the date of the arrest.
In addition, the court ordered the convict and his company to pay the sum of $629,267.00 as restitution to the victim, Joseph Crews and Aumenta Holdings Inc of the United States of America. He also ordered that Vanyigar concepts limited be wound up.
