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Man Bags 7 years in prison for falsifying paracetamol

Court Sentences Chinese Man, Gang Deng For Illegal Mining In Kwara

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October 20, 2022
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Federal High Court sitting in Ilorin yesterday convicted and sentenced a 29-year-old China national, Gang Deng, to five years imprisonment for offences bordering on illegal mining and possession of crude minerals without lawful authority

Gang, who is a Managing Director of Sinuo Xinyang Nigeria Ltd, was arrested along Tsaragi Road in Edu Local Government Area of Kwara State on Friday, September 9, 2022 by the Ilorin Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC.

He was found to be in possession of 25 tons of crude minerals suspected to be lepidolite.

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Lepidolite is a raw material usually transported to China for production of batteries for vehicles, cell phones, cameras and other electronic devices

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Operatives of the EFCC, in collaboration with the Kwara State Command of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC and the Federal Ministry of Mines and Steel Development on August 30, 2022, arrested 13 suspected illegal miners operating in Kakafu village in Patigi Local Government Area of the state.

Mining without license is a criminal offence under the law. It is an act of economic sabotage, punishable under Section 1 (8) of the Miscellaneous Offences Act, which stipulates life imprisonment for offenders

Deng confessed to the crime admitting that he was operating without licence.Consequently, the Ilorin Command of the EFCC arraigned him alongside his company Sinuo Xinyang Nigeria Ltd yesterday on one count amended charge before Justice Muhammed Sani.When the charge was read to the defendant, he pleaded guilty, but entered “not guilty plea” for his company. The charge read:

“That you Sinuo Xinyang Nigeria Ltd and Gang Deng, sometime in the Month of September 2022 at Share, along Tsaragi Road in Edu Local Government Area of Kwara State, within the jurisdiction of the Federal High Court, without lawful authority purchased mineral to wit. 25 Tons of Mineral worth the sum of N2,490,000.00 conveyed in a DAF TRUCK, with Registration Number KLRAD85XCOE603462 and thereby committed an Offence, Contrary and punishable under Section 1 (8) (b) of Miscellaneous Offences Act 1984

Upon his plea, counsel to the EFCC, Innocent Mbachie reviewed the facts of the case and tendered documents, which were admitted in evidence.

He urged the court to convict the defendant as charged.

Justice Sani in passing judgement, took into consideration the allocutus made by Gang’s counsel, who pleaded for clemency on the grounds that the convict was a first offender and a responsible citizen

Consequently, the court sentenced Deng to five years imprisonment with option of fine of N1million only.

The judge also ordered that the 25 tons of the mineral recovered from him at the point of arrest be forfeited to the Federal Government.

The court, thereafter adjourned to November 17, 2022 for hearing in the case of the convict’s company, Sinuo Xinyang Nigeria Ltd, that pleaded guilty to the amended charge.

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