In a statement on Tuesday, the EFCC disclosed that the “Abuja Zonal Directorate of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Monday, July 21, 2025, arraigned one Philip Ifejimalu Eze and his company Orimiri Oil and Gas before Justice A.H. Musa of the Fedr FCT High Court Apo-Abuja on a one-count charge.”
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arraigned Orimiri Oil and Gas, an oil company, and its Chief Executive Officer, Philip Ifejimalu Eze, over an alleged N63 million fraud involving a failed petroleum product transaction.
In a statement on Tuesday, the EFCC disclosed that the “Abuja Zonal Directorate of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Monday, July 21, 2025, arraigned one Philip Ifejimalu Eze and his company Orimiri Oil and Gas before Justice A.H. Musa of the Fedr FCT High Court Apo-Abuja on a one-count charge.”
According to the charge, the oil executive allegedly deceived a business associate, Chief Amech Nduka of Amatex Oil and Gas, into delivering 45,000 litres of Automotive Gas Oil (AGO), also known as diesel, valued at N63 million.
The transaction was reportedly backed by a cheque that was reportedly drawn from a bank that no longer existed.
The charge reads: “That you, Philip Ifejimalu Eze while being the Managing Director of Orimiri Oil and Gas sometime in 2024 in Abuja, within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court, with intent to defraud induced one Chief Amech Nduka of Amatex Oil and Gas to deliver 45,000 litres of Automatic Gas Oil valued at N63,000,000 (Sixty Three Million Naira only) which payment was made via a bank cheque of Mainstreet Bank Plc which you knew had already been liquidated as same was rejected at Zenith Bank Plc when presented for payment which pretense you knew to be false and you thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 1(a) of the Advanced Fee Fraud and Other Related Offences Act, 2006 and punishable under Section 1(3) of the same Act.”
Upon arraignment, Eze pleaded not guilty to the charge.
Following his plea, the prosecution counsel, Mariya Ujudud Shariff, requested a trial date.
It was further noted that Justice A.H. Musa granted bail to the defendant under stringent conditions.
The court ordered that Eze must produce two sureties.
One of the sureties must be a civil servant not below Grade Level 12 and present a letter of introduction from his employer, which the court registrar must verify.
The second surety must own a property within the court’s jurisdiction, depose to an affidavit, and sign a bail bond of N2,000,000 (Two Million Naira).
The court subsequently adjourned the matter till November 11, 2025, for the commencement of trial.
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