Bribery: Court jails Chinese nationals for offering N50m cash to officialEFCC official | TheCable
Bolanle OlabimtanThe court of appeal in Sokoto has sentenced two Chinese nationals, Meng Wei Kun and Xu Kuai, to six years imprisonment for fraud.
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission arraigned the convicts before a federal high court in Sokoto on a three-count charge bordering on conspiracy, money laundering, and attempted bribery to the tune of N50 million.However, delivering judgment in the appeal filed by the EFCC on Friday, the court of appeal led by Abubakar Talba, found the respondents guilty of two out of the three counts.
“The respondents are Chinese and an offence of this gravity in their home country attracts the death penalty yet here they are corrupting our country. “The courts of the federal republic of Nigeria will not condone corruption in any way. As President Muhammadu Buhari has said, “if we don’t kill corruption, corruption will kill Nigeria.”
The court held that the appeal was “immensely meritorious” and convicted and sentenced the Chinese nationals to three years on each of the two counts.This story is published in partnership with Report for the World, a global service program that supports local public interest journalism.
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