A Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Dele Belgore, standing trial before a Federal High Court in Lagos for alleged N450 million fraud on Friday denied complicity in the crime.
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A Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Dele Belgore, on Tuesday told a Federal High in Lagos that he thought the N450 million given to him in 2015 was sent from the Peoples Democratic Party 2015 Presidential Campaign Headquarters in Abuja and not part of $115 million doled out by former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Diezani Alison-Madueke.
Belgore is standing trial on a N450 million money laundering charge.
Belgore was arraigned along with a former Minister of National Planning, Prof Abubakar Suleiman, before Justice Mohammed Aikawa , on a five-count charge bordering on the offence.
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission had charged Belgore together with a former Minister of National Planning, Prof. Abubakar Suleiman, on a five-count charge bordering on N500 million fraud.
The former minister is seeking to be joined as defendant in a N500 million fraud charge slammed on a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Dele Belgore
When trial resumed on Tuesday, the prosecution sought to tender in evidence, a document containing a comprehensive list of beneficiaries of Alison-Madueke’s funds in the 36 states of the federation
Belgore (SAN) made the announcement while addressing his supporters named MDB in Ilorin, Kwara State on Wednesday.
He said: “People have waited for long for the MDB group to make a pronouncement on our political future
Speaking against the backdrop of perceived call by the gubernatorial candidate of the Action Congress of Nigeria in the last general election in the state, Dele Belgore, SAN, for the government to reduce its workforce, Ahmed said it is politically and morally obtuse to contemplate retrenchment in a state largely populated by civil servants