A
35-year-old selfacclaimed pastor, Samuel Stephen Chukwuka, was yesterday
sentenced to one year in prison for defrauding a company, De-Skye Mercantile
Services Limited in the sum of N4.5 million.
Chukwuka was convicted by Justice
Mojisola Dada of an Ikeja Special Offenced Court, Lagos on a two-count charge
of stealing contrary to Section 285(5) of the Criminal Laws of Lagos State,
2011. Dada jailed Chukwuka after he pleaded guilty and confessed investing the
said money in a Ponzi scheme popularly known as MMM.
The
convict, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) said, committed
the offence on October 31, 2016, by dishonestly converting N3 million, property
of De-Skye Mercantile S e r v i c e s Limited, to his personal use.
The
antigraft agency said that Chukwuka also converted N1.3 million property of the
same company to his personal use.T he complainant and CEO of De-Skye
Mercantile, Egwabor Evans, had testified that the pastor (in the disguise of
Multitech Business Ventures) had approached him through Mr. Shola Oyedele to
finance an LPO (local purchase order).
According to the evidence before the
court, Evans petitioned the EFCC in a letter dated August 8, 2017, alleging
that Chukwuka claimed that he was offered an LPO to supply 3,000 litres of
Automotive Gas Oil (AGO) otherwise called diesel to UAC Lagos worth N3 million.
Evans said that a payment was made on October 31, 2016 via interbank transfer
from Fidelity Bank to his Zenith Bank account to be paid back after three to
six weeks.
“Four
weeks later, on November 29, 2016, Chukwuka came back again that there is
another LPO of 6,000 litres worth N1.3 million in the total sum of two LPOs
worth N4.3 million. “After the second transfer was made, he stopped picking my
calls.
All efforts to recover the money from him yielded no result,” Evans
said. Meanwhile, Chukwuka, in his defence before the court, admitted that he
collected the money from the complainant but invested it in a Ponzi scheme
popularly known as MMM.
Chukwuka
said that he collected the money with the intention of investing it into MMM to
make some profits but the scheme crashed on December 14, 2016. Justice Dada
thereafter sentenced him to one year in prison following his written agreement
with the EFCC where he promised to pay a balance of the N800,000, as he had
paid part of the money.
NewTelegraph
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