{"id":154707,"date":"2025-03-10T21:20:53","date_gmt":"2025-03-10T20:20:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/two-chinese-jailed-for-illegal-mining-in-kwara"},"modified":"2025-03-25T18:58:52","modified_gmt":"2025-03-25T17:58:52","slug":"two-chinese-jailed-for-illegal-mining-in-kwara","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/economy\/two-chinese-jailed-for-illegal-mining-in-kwara","title":{"rendered":"Two Chinese jailed for illegal mining in Kwara"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>Two Chinese nationals have been jailed for illegal mining of solid minerals in Kwara State.<\/p>\n<p>Yang Chao and Wu Shan Chuan were convicted alongside their company, Crius Chemical Nigeria Limited.<\/p>\n<p>Justice Abimbola Awogboro of the Federal High Court, Ilorin, convicted and sentenced the two Chinese nationals.<\/p>\n<p>The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ilorin Directorate, prosecuted the convicts on a one-count charge of dealing in illegal solid minerals mining.<\/p>\n<p>The charge sheet read: \u201cThat you, Yang Chao, Wu Shan Chuan, and Crius Chemical Nigeria Limited, sometime in March 2024, within the jurisdiction of the Federal High Court, engaged in dealing with minerals without lawful authority, thereby committing an offence contrary to and punishable under Section 134(b) of the Nigerian Minerals and Mining Act, 2007.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>They pleaded \u201cguilty\u201d when the charge was read to them. Following this, EFCC counsel, Sesan Ola, reviewed the facts of the case through a witness\u2014an operative of the commission\u2014who tendered the defendants\u2019 extra-judicial statements, a report from the Nigeria Geological Survey Agency, and the defendants\u2019 passports, all of which were admitted in evidence.<\/p>\n<p>Satisfied that the prosecution had proved its case beyond reasonable doubt, Justice Awogboro found the defendants guilty, convicting and sentencing them to two years\u2019 imprisonment each or an option of a N1 million fine. The N1 million fine was also extended to the company.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to their sentences, the convicts are required to remit N14 million in royalties to the federal government, while all solid minerals found on the premises of their company, located at No.1 Idi Ope Road, along Ogunmakin-Odeda Road, Omi, Ogun State, were forfeited to the federal government, according to a statement by Dele Oyewale, Head of Media and Publicity for the anti-graft agency.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Nigeria<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. Two Chinese nationals have been jailed for illegal mining of solid minerals in Kwara State. Yang Chao and Wu Shan Chuan were convicted alongside their company, Crius Chemical Nigeria Limited. Justice Abimbola Awogboro of the Federal High Court, Ilorin, convicted and sentenced the two Chinese nationals. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":154706,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,15],"tags":[3770,1205,254],"class_list":["post-154707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-economy","tag-chinese","tag-kwara","tag-nigeria"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Two Chinese jailed for illegal mining in Kwara - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Two Chinese nationals have been jailed for illegal mining of solid minerals in Kwara State. 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