{"id":15637,"date":"2019-09-19T12:44:03","date_gmt":"2019-09-19T12:44:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\/?p=15637"},"modified":"2019-09-19T12:44:03","modified_gmt":"2019-09-19T12:44:03","slug":"9-6bn-contract-scam-pids-officials-plead-guilty-to-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/9-6bn-contract-scam-pids-officials-plead-guilty-to-fraud","title":{"rendered":"$9.6bn contract scam: P&amp;ID\u2019s officials plead guilty to fraud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Representatives of the Process and Industrial Development Ltd on Thursday pleaded guilty before the Federal High Court in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Abuja\">Abuja<\/a> to charges of fraud and tax evasion instituted against them.<\/p>\n<p>the Federal Government had vowed to go ahead and probe the gas pipeline deal between the previous administration and an Irish firm, Process and Industrial Developments Limited (P&amp;ID), which triggered the decision of a United Kingdom court to ask the company to seize $9.6bn in Nigerian assets.<\/p>\n<p>The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Thursday, arraigned the two firms that were linked to the controversial oil contract (P&amp;ID) that led to the judgement of the British Court that ordered the seizure of Nigeria\u2019s foreign assets worth $9.6billion.<\/p>\n<p>The firms, P&amp;ID Ltd, Virgin Island and its Nigerian affiliate, P&amp;ID Nigeria Ltd, pleaded guilty to the 11-count which bordered on fraud and tax evasion.<\/p>\n<p>However, a British court last month ruled against Nigeria\u2019s objection to the 2017 arbitration.<\/p>\n<p>The money with interest has now accumulated to about $9 billion (approximately N3.24 trillion), over one-third of Nigeria\u2019s 2019 budget.<\/p>\n<p>The judgement was delivered by Justice Butcher of The High Court of Justice, Business and Property Courts of England and Wales.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Representatives of the Process and Industrial Development Ltd on Thursday pleaded guilty before the Federal High Court in Abuja to charges of fraud and tax evasion instituted against them. the Federal Government had vowed to go ahead and probe the gas pipeline deal between the previous administration and an Irish firm, Process and Industrial [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":10197,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,15],"tags":[823,105,343],"class_list":["post-15637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-economy","tag-corruption-in-nigeria","tag-economy-of-nigeria","tag-fraud"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - 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