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P-ID Fraud: Court Convicts, Winds Up Marqott Nigeria Limited

by Ejike Ejike
3 years ago
in Cover Stories, News
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Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has convicted and wound up Marqott Nigeria Limited,  one of the 30 companies  associated with the  Process and Industrial Development Limited, P & ID,  for money laundering.

The company was convicted yesterday after being found guilty of four count charges bordering on money laundering preferred against it by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC.

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Count one of the charge read: “That you, Marqott Nigeria Limited, being a designated Non-financial Institution; and Giovanni Beccarelli, Valentina Fantoli, and Dimitri Duca, being directors of and signatories to the bank account of Marqott Nigeria Limited, sometime in September 2014, in Abuja, within the Abuja Judicial Division of the Federal High Court, failed to comply with the requirements of submitting to the Federal Ministry of Industry, Trade and Investment, a declaration of activities of Marqott Nigeria Limited contrary to Section 16(1) (f) read together with Section 5(1)(a)(ii) of the Money Laundering (Prohibition) Act, 2011(as amended and you thereby committed an offence punishable under section 16(2)(b) of the same Act.”

Count two read:  “That you, Marqott Nigeria Limited, being a designated Non-financial Institution; and Giovanni Beccarelli, Valentina Fantoli, and Dimitri Duca, being directors of and signatories to the bank account of Marqott Nigeria Limited, sometime in September 2014, in Abuja, within the Abuja Judicial Division of the Federal High Court, failed to develop programs to combat money laundering and other illegal acts, to wit: failure to designate at management level a compliance officer within any strata of Marqott Nigeria Limited, contrary to Section 16(1)(f) read together with Section 9(1)(a) of the Money Laundering (Prohibition) Act, 2011 (as amended) and you thereby committed an offence punishable under Section 16 (2)(b) of the same Act”.

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EFCC spokesperson, Wilson Uwujaren, said at the point of first arraignment on February 7, 2022,  the defendant pleaded “not guilty” to the charges, setting a stage  for full trial.

In the course of the trial, the EFCC presented many witnesses and tendered many documents as exhibits.

In his judgement, Justice D. Okorowo found Marqott Nigeria Limited guilty of all the four count charges and convicted it accordingly.

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He also ordered that the company be wound up and its entire assets forfeited to the Federal Government of Nigeria.

Marqott was first arraigned on Monday, February 7, 2022 for being an accomplice in the $9.6bn Gas Supply and Processing Agreement between the Ministry of Petroleum Resources and P&ID.

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