One of the indicted oil marketing companies, Capital Oil
& Gas Industries Ltd, by the Presidential Committee on Verification and
Reconciliation of Fuel Subsidy Payments headed by Mr. Aigboje Aig-Imoukhede, has
described as “very shoddy”, the report, which recommended it for criminal
investigation.
Capital Oil & Gas in a statement said the committee
erred by accusing it of infractions by making claims of subsidy payments
without proof of existence of the mother vessel bill of lading or daughter
vessel bill of lading, in spite of indisputable documents evidencing the
purchase, payment, sailing and discharge of the cargo in question.
The company also argued the committee was wrong to have
recommended that it collected subsidy payments for which proof of mother-vessels
were not found in locations claimed at the time of transshipments. This, it
said, was notwithstanding that all the relevant documents regarding the
importation of the cargo, including mother and daughter vessels documents and
the bill of lading was made available to the committee.
In addition, Capital Oil & Gas said it had provided to
the committee, letters from Vitol S.A and Delany both internationally-recognized
oil trading companies confirming the transshipment and vessel positions, transshipment
from International Cargo Surveyor Inspectors (SGS), one of the key inspection
companies worldwide.
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