The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC Port Harcourt Zonal Office, on Monday February 17, 2020 secured the conviction of one Anaero Chimecha David over  fake Shell Petroleum Development Company job offer.

The defendant who was prosecuted before Justice A.T Mohammed of the Federal High Court, Port Harcourt, Rivers State on a six- count charge, obtained the sum of N175,000.00 from his victim under the pretext of helping her secure employment with the Shell Petroluem Development Company, SPDC.

One of the charges against the convict reads, "That you, ANAERO CHIMECHA DAVID and others now at large sometime in January 2019 at Port Harcourt Judicial Division did with intent to defraud, obtained the sum of One Hundred and Seventy Five Thousand Naira only (N175,000.00) from one MISS OBULOR JULIET HUOMA under the false pretence that you will offer her a job with Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) under a scheme you coined “special internal recruitment for indigenous candidates of members of staff”, a representation you knew to be false and thereby committed an offence, contrary to section 1(i)(a) of Advance Fee Fraud and Other Fraud Related Offences Act, 2006and punishable under section 1(3) of the same Act".  

David who was arraigned on October 15, 2019, pleaded "not guilty" to the six count charge preferred against him. But in the course of trial, he opted to change his plea to "guilty", thereby paving way for his conviction.

Defence counsel, M.N Ikechukwu Agwu pleaded with the court to temper justice with mercy since the convict is a first offender without any previous conviction record.

The prosecuting counsel, Okorie Celestina did not object.   

Justice Mohammed thereafter convicted and sentenced the defendant to three years imprisonment.

The convict has fully restituted his victim.

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February 17, 2020