2 Dutch Citizens For Arraignment Over $707,363 Fraud April 17

Justice Chukwujekwu Aneke of the Federal High Court in Lagos has fixed April 17 for the arraignment of two citizens of Netherland, Eline Holtes and Henricus Jacob De Kok, over allegations of conspiracy, obtaining money by false pretences and stealing the sum of $707,363.

Justice Aneke set the date for the arraignment of the foreigners and a company, Damen Charter International 12B.V., after the Police Force Criminal Investigation Department (ForceCID) filed a three-count charge marked FHC/L/153c/24 against them.

The police, through its prosecutor, Sunday Ayodele, claimed that the defendants conspired among themselves to commit the offences sometime in 2019.

Ayodele also alleged that the defendants fraudulently obtained the sum from a firm, NUE Offshore Resource, under the false pretence of selling a Vessel to it.

He maintained that the alleged offences are contrary to sections 8(a), 1(1)(c) and were punishable under section 1(3) of the Advance Fee Fraud and Other Related Offences Act, CAP A8 Vol 1, Laws of the Federation of Nigeria, 2004.

The prosecutor further claimed that the offences violated section 383 and were punishable under section 390 (9) of the Criminal Code Cap. C38. Laws of the Federation of Nigeria, 2004.

The charges against the defendants read: “that you Eline Holtes ‘F’, Henricus Jacob De Kok and Damen Charter International 12B.V sometimes in 2019, in Lagos, within the Lagos Judicial Division of the Federal High Court, did conspire among yourselves to commit felony to wit, obtaining money by false pretence and stealing and thereby committed an offence contrary to section 8(a) and punishable under section 1(3) of the Advance Fee Fraud and other Related offences Act, CAP A8 Vol 1, Laws of the Federation of Nigeria, 2004.

“That you Eline Holtes ‘F’, Henricus Jacob De Kok and Damen Charter International 12B.V, on the same date, time and place, and in the Judicial above Division of the Federal High Court, did by false pretence and with intent to defraud obtained the sum of $707, 363, 10 from one NUE offshore Resource by selling a Vessel which is represented to the company that her engine was manufactured in 2019, a pretence you knew to be false and thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 1(1)(c) and punishable under section 1(3) of the Advance Fee Fraud and Other Related Offences Act 2006, Laws of the Federation of Nigeria.

“That you Eline Holtes, Henricus Jacob De Kok and Damen Charter International 12B.V., at the same date and time place, and in the Judicial above Division Court, did steal the sum $700,000 from one NUE offshore Resource and thereby committed an offence Contrary to section 383 and punishable under section 390 (9) of the Criminal Code Cap. C38. Laws of the Federation of Nigeria, 2004.”