Stella Obasanjo’s Younger Brother Jailed For Money Laundering And Forgery

<h4>Stella Obasanjo’s Younger Brother Jailed<&sol;h4>&NewLine;<p><strong><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;openlife&period;ng&sol;">OpenLife Nigeria<&sol;a> <&sol;strong>reports that an Ikeja Special Offences Court&comma; presided by Justice Mojisola Dada&comma; has sentenced former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s in-law Dr&period; John Abebe to seven-year imprisonment for money laundering and forgery&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Justice Dada however gave the convict an option of fine of N50million to be paid within 30days in lieu of imprisonment&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;The trial judge handed the judgement after it was established that the prosecution proved its case beyond reasonable doubt and convicted him accordingly&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission&comma; EFCC&comma; arraigned Abebe&comma; who is a younger brother to the late former First Lady&comma; Stella Obasanjo for forgery&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;The prosecution led by Rotimi Oyedepo &lpar;SAN&rpar; arraigned the convict on July 26&comma; 2018 on a four-count charge of forgery&comma; fabricating evidence&comma; using fabricated evidence and attempt to pervert the course of justice before the Special Offences Court in Ikeja&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;The EFCC&comma; in the charges&comma; claimed that Abebe &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;knowingly forged” a November 30&comma; 1995 letter written by BP Exploration Nigeria Limited to Inducon &lpar;Nigeria&rpar; Limited&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;The anti-graft agency claimed that the businessman &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;illegally inserted” into page 2 of the said letter &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;the following statement&colon; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Also note that the &OpenCurlyQuote;Buy-Out Option’ only applies to the pre-production stage of the NPIA&period; The &dollar;4m buy-out is thus irrelevant from production of oil in any of our fields&period;”<br &sol;>&NewLine;According to the EFCC&comma; Dr&period; Abebe also attempted to &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;pervert the course of justice” by tendering the allegedly forged November 30&comma; 1995 letter &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;as a fabricated evidence” in court&comma; <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;vanguardngr&period;com&sol;">in Suit No&period; FHC&sol;L&sol;CS&sol;224&sol;2010 between Dr&period; John Abebe&comma; Inducon Nigeria Limited and Statoil Nigeria Limited&period;<&sol;a><br &sol;>&NewLine;An oil company&comma; Statoil Nigeria Limited had on June 22&comma; 2010&comma; accused Dr Abebe of forgery&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Statoil Nigeria Limited had alleged that the defendant forged parts of a Net Profit Interest Agreement &lpar;NPIA&rpar; dated November 30&comma; 1995&comma; which was drafted by British Petroleum &lpar;BP&rpar;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;19697" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-19697" style&equals;"width&colon; 300px" class&equals;"wp-caption alignnone"><img class&equals;"size-medium wp-image-19697" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;openlife&period;ng&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2023&sol;02&sol;John-Abebe-696x522-1-300x225&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Stella Obasanjo’s Younger Brother " width&equals;"300" height&equals;"225" &sol;><figcaption id&equals;"caption-attachment-19697" class&equals;"wp-caption-text"><em><strong>John Abebe<&sol;strong><&sol;em><&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;