The trial of Jide Omokore, an ally of Diezani Alison-Madueke, for a $1.6billion fraud could not continue on Friday, December 8, 2017, due to the absence of defence counsel, Tayo Oyetibo, SAN. Omokore, Chairman of Atlantic Energy Brass Development limited, Atlantic Energy Drlling Concept Limited, is being prosecuted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, alongside Victor Briggs, former managing director of Nigerian Petroleum Development Company Limited; Abiye Membere, former Group Executive Director, Exploration and Production of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation; David Mbanefo, manager Planning and Commercial of…
Omokore’s $1.6bn Oil Fraud Trial Stalled
