For an alleged ₦9 million visa scam, Echendu Ndubuisi Endy has been charged by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).
According to the EFCC’s Port Harcourt Zonal Directorate, Echendu Endy, the managing director of Echendu GPC Limited, was charged with three counts on Thursday by Federal High Court Judge E. A. Obile in Port Harcourt, Rivers state, pertaining to visa fraud and money laundering.
“That you, Echendu Ndubuisi Endy, while being the Managing Director of Echendu GPC Limited between April 23, 2024, and May 2, 2024, in Port Harcourt, within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court, with intent to defraud, did obtain the total sum of (four million naira) N4,000,000.00 only from Mr. Darlington Abuchi under the pretense that you had the capacity to procure United Kingdom work permit visa to enable him to work and stay in the United Kingdom, which you knew to be false, and so committed an offense against Section 1(1) a & b of the Advance Fee Fraud and Other Fraud Related Offences Act, 2006, which is punishable under Section 1(3) of the same Act.”
“That you, Echendu Ndubuisi Endy, while serving as the Managing Director of Echendu GPC Limited in Port Harcourt, within the jurisdiction of this Honorable Court, between August 16th and September 14th, 2023, with intent to defraud, obtained the total sum of (three million naira) N3,000,000.00 only from Mrs. Ngozi Nzechukwu under the pretense that you had the capacity to procure United Kingdom work permit visa to enable her to work and stay in the United Kingdom, which you knew to be false, and thus committed an offense against Section 1(1) a & b of the Advance Fee Fraud and Other Fraud Related Offences Act. 2006, which is punishable under Section 1(3) of the same Act.”
Endy entered a plea of “not guilty” to the allegations when they were read to him. Prosecutor K. A. Yunus then asked the court to set a trial date and remand the defendants to the Nigeria Correctional Service (NCS) detention.
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The court was notified by defense attorney P. U. Alikor that he had requested the defendant’s bail. He asked the judge to release the defendant on bail so he could get ready for his trial.
In his decision, Justice Obile mandated that the defendant be placed under remand at the Correctional Facility in Port Harcourt. To hear the bail application, the case was postponed to November 28, 2024.
