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Court fines Emirates Airline $1.6m, N50m, for unlawful conversion of passenger’s funds
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By Onozure Dania, Lagos
A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos has ordered Emirates Airline to pay a businessman Mr Orji Ikem, the sum of $1,630million USD, that was contained in his hand luggage, which some staff of Emirate Airline illegally and unlawfully converted to their use, during a business trip from Lagos to China in 2007.
The court also awarded the sum of N50 million against Emirates Airline, for the untold hardship it subjected the businessman too, as a result of the said illegal and unlawful conversion of the businessman’s hand luggage that warehoused the said $1, 630 million USD.