UPDATED: Chinese company’s attempt to seize presidential jets fraudulent, says Presidency

The Presidency on Thursday said the efforts by a Chinese company, Zhongshan Fucheng Industrial Investment Co. Limited, to take over some jets on Nigeria’s Presidential Air Fleet are fraudulent.

This followed a court order by the Judicial Court of Paris to seize three aircraft belonging to the PAF.

But the Presidency argued that the use and nature of the Presidential jets as assets of a Sovereign entity whose assets are protected by diplomatic immunity forbid any foreign Court from issuing an order against them.

It said it is convinced that the Chinese company “misled” the Judicial Court of Paris regarding the use and nature of the assets it seeks to attach and did not fully disclose to the court as required by law.