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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Port Harcourt Zonal Directorate on Wednesday, February 25, 2026 arraigned one Isaac Saviour Emmanuel before Justice H.A Nganjiwa of the Federal High Court sitting in Warri, Delta State, over alleged N157,000,000.00 ( One Hundred and Fifty Seven Million and $4000( Four Hundred United States Dollars) contract fraud.
He was arraigned on a seven-count charge bordering
on conversion of funds and contract scam.
Count one reads:
That you SAVIOUR EMMANUEL ISAAC on or about the month
of June 2023 and May, 2024 within the jurisdiction of this Honorable court did
directly convert aggregate sum of about N157, 000, 000.00 (One Hundred and
Fifty Seven Million Naira) part of which were paid into your First City
Monument Bank Account No. 6881941020, Isaac Saviour Emmanuel , at various
times by Nathaniel Russel Okpenyi, the Managing Director and Chief Executive
Officer of Ursyfin Integrated Services Ltd which sum you purported to be for
the award of contracts and thereby committed an offence contrary to Section
18(1) & (2)(b) of the Money Laundering (Prevention and Prohibition )Act,
2022 and punishable under Section 18(3) of the same Act.
Another count reads:
That you SAVIOUR EMMANUEL ISAAC on or about the months
of June 2023 and May, 2024 within the jurisdiction of this Honorable court did
directly use an aggregate sum of about N157, 000, 000.00 (One Hundred and Fifty
Seven Million Naira) part of which were paid into your First City
Monument Bank Account No. 6881941020, Isaac Saviour Emmanuel, at various
times by Nathaniel Russel Okpenyi, the Managing Director and Chief Executive
Officer of Ursyfin Integrated Services Ltd which you professed to be for the
award of contracts which sum you knew or reasonably ought to have known is
proceeds of your unlawful act and thereby committed an offence contrary to
Section 18(1) & (2)(d) of the Money Laundering (Prevention and Prohibition)
Act, 2022 and punishable under Section 18(3) of the same Act.
The defendant pleaded "not guilty" when the
charges were read to him.
In view of his plea, prosecution counsel, M. Abubakar
applied for a trial date and prayed the court to remand the defendant in the
Correctional Service.
However, counsel to the defendant, F.E. Tobuye did not
present a formal application for bail before the court.
Justice H.A Nganjiwa subsequently ordered that
the defendant be remanded in a Correctional Centre, pending a formal bail
application and adjourned the matter to May 19, 2026 for hearing of bail
application.
Emmanuel’s journey was arrested when a
petitioner accused him of contract scam, obtaining by false pretence and
conversion of funds.
Investigation into the allegations showed that
Emmanuel allegedly persuaded the petitioner that he was capable of assisting
him secure contracts from different agencies. Based on the assurance, the
petitioner parted with a huge sum of money and the defendant handed him some
letters of award of contracts which were later discovered to be fake.
The purported business deal spanned between June
2023 and May 2025 and caused the petitioner to lose a total sum of N157m and
$4000 and efforts to recover the money proved abortive.
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