Akinjide is being prosecuted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission along with a former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Diezani Alison-Madueke, who is said to be “at large”.
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Olatoregun had on December 5, 2017, ordered an interim forfeiture of the said properties, after an exparte application was argued by The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that ex-INEC official was arrested after Wednesday’s proceedings in another criminal case at the Federal High Court in Lagos.
Akinjide was re-arraigned before Justice Muslim Hassan, on a 24-count charge, following the transfer of the case file by the Chief Judge of the Federal High Court Justice Adamu Kafarati.
Some of the alleged fraud included the $2.1 billion arms purchase scandal allegedly involving a former National Security Adviser, retired Colonel Sambo Dasuki; and several allegations against the former Minister of Petroleum Resources in the Goodluck Jonathan Administration, Diezani Alison-Maduekw.
Justice Olatoregun gave the order on Tuesday
Bent said the reports were maliciously contrived by those she described as ill-informed hack writers and destroyers of destinies.
Nwosu, who is a former Administrative Secretary of the Independent National Electoral Commission in Kwara State, spoke while testifying in a trial-within-trial before Justice Mohammed Idris.
In his ruling on Wednesday, Justice Mohammed Aikawa held that the application by the ex-petroleum minister was not only a misuse of court processes, but a deliberate attempt to evade justice in the UK.
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.
Belgore was charged before Justice Mohammed Aikawa of a Federal High Court, Lagos, alongside a former Minister of National Planning, Prof. Abubakar Suleiman.
EFCC detectives probing the disappearance of the cash have traced eight suspected assets in Dubai, United Arab Emirate to a former Managing Director of the Pipelines and Product Marketing Company, Haruna Momoh
Those already on trial over the alleged fraud are an oil mogul and ally to the ex-Minister, Jide Omokore; former Managing Director of the Nigerian Petroleum Development Company, Victor Briggs; former Group Executive Director, Exploration and Production of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, Abiye Membere; former Manager, Planning and Commercial of the NNPC, David Mbanefo
The anti-graft agency has allegedly linked the loot with the ex-minister and four of her business associates
The Acting Chairman of the EFCC, Ibrahim Magu, confirmed the development during an interaction newsmen and civil society groups
In a statement dated 3 September 2017 and signed by SERAP deputy director, Timothy Adewale, the organization said that: “The allegations of corruption against Mrs Diezani Alison-Madueke suggest the manifest failure of the government of former president Goodluck Jonathan to protect Nigerians from such heinous crimes”.
Justice Abdulazeez Anka granted an application by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission seeking the final forfeiture of the money to the Federal Government
One of the conveners of the campaign, Ezenwa Nwagwu, made the call while briefing newsmen on Tuesday in Abuja.
Justice Abdulaziz Anka of the Federal High Court in Lagos gave the forfeiture order in Lagos on Tuesday, ruling that the houses were acquired with proceeds of unlawful activities
In a statement issued today in Abuja, the group said that the sum of N47.2 billion and $487.5 million in cash and property traced to Madueke by the EFCC is also enough to complete the Lagos-Kano and Lagos-Calabar rail lines for which monies are being borrowed.