Nigerian Judge Issues Arrest Warrant for Head of Exxon Unit
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A Nigerian judge issued an arrest warrant for the managing director of Exxon Mobil Corp.’s local unit for failing to appear before the nation’s anti-graft agency, which is investigating what it says is a $213 million fraud.
Federal Court Judge Okon Abang approved a request by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission to issue an arrest warrant for Richard Laing, head of Exxon Mobil’s Nigerian unit, Wilson Uwujaren, an Abuja-based spokesman for the EFCC, said by phone Wednesday. The EFCC is investigating the company, and not Laing, he said Thursday.