2 Netherlands national to be prosecuted over alleged $1.4m theft

Eline Holtes and Henricus Jacob De Kok, 2 citizens of the Netherlands, are expected to face prosecution over alleged $1,407,373 theft before the Federal High Court in Lagos on April 17, 2024.

The Police Force Criminal Investigation Department, brought the charges, which include stealing, obtaining by false pretence, and conspiracy.

They are to be prosecuted alongside a company, Damen Charter International 12 B.V. in a charge marked FHC/L/153c/24, before Justice Chukwujekwu Aneke.

In the charge filed by the Force CID’s prosecutor, S. O. Ayodele alleged that the defendants conspired among themselves to commit the offences sometime in 2019.

Holtes and De Kok, alongside the company, were alleged to have fraudulently obtained the sum of $707,363.10, from a firm, NUE Offshore Resource, by selling a vessel which was represented to the company that its engine was manufactured in 2019, a pretence they knew to be false.

They were also accused of stealing the sum of $700,000 from NUE Offshore Resource.

According to the police, the offences committed contravened Sections 8(a), 1(1)(c), 1(3), 383, 390 (9) of the Advance Fee Fraud and other Related Offences Act, CAP A8 Vol 1, Laws of the Federation of Nigeria, 2004.