One of the charge reads: “That you Ukiri Emonena Blessing, (m), on or about the 2nd day of July, 2007 at Port Harcourt, Rivers State, within the jurisdiction of this honourable court, did transfer the sum of Twenty Million Four Hundred and Twenty Three Thousand Seven Hundred Naira (N20,423,700.00) from your United Bank for Africa (UBA) account number 00030550002674 to UBA Stockbrokers Limited using UBA cheque number 01290571 which money you derived from the judgement sum in favour of Samuel Onowighose paid by the Central Bank of Nigeria on the 3rd day of April, 2007 into your Diamond Bank account number 632010000025 with the aim of disguising the origin of the money and thereby committed an offence contrary to section 14(1)(a) of the Money Laundering (Prohibition) Act 2004 and punishable under section 14(1) of the same Act
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Aremo said the poor financial position of the EFCC was made known to the Senate committee on Drugs, Narcotics and Financial Crimes during an oversight visit
The EFCC counsel, Musa Isah, told the court that the defendants had conspired with others still at large to commit the offences in October 2010 in Lagos
But the EFCC in a statement on Sunday, said it was unfortunate that the Supreme Court disagreed with the decisions of the Lagos High Court, which convicted George, and the Court of Appeal that turned down his attempt to have the conviction upturned
Counsel to the EFCC, Rotimi Oyedepo, told the court that Ogunbambo’s medical report should be ignored until its authenticity was established
According to him, the EFCC must act in collaboration with international law enforcement agencies to achieve its objective
He said: “In 10 years of existence, EFCC has recorded over a thousand convictions
Counsel to the EFCC, Adebisi Adeniyi told Justice Adamu Hobon of the Federal High Court sitting in Ado- Ekiti, Ekiti state that the witnesses are being harassed, intimidated and threatened and cannot present themselves in court
According to the complainant, the accused person refused to pay him the said sum, being the cost of five truck load of automotive gas oil which he supplied to Chevron yard in Delta State since May, 2012
In playing these games of hide-and-seek, Nigerian political office holders have clearly discovered that the best way to succeed in hiding their misdeeds and heist of public fund is to cultivate friendship with leaders of religious institutions and also compromise high profile law enforcement operatives to look the other way while they escape with their loots
“While these figures may not necessarily be indicative of the proceeds of crime, it does however show the AML/CFT vulnerabilities associated with cash movements,’’ he said
Based on this, it applied for payment and the sum of N6,130,006,149.30 was paid as subsidy by the Federal Government but it was later discovered that Eurafric did not execute the transaction as claimed,
rather it traded off the permit to a third party company named Tubbs Marine Services Limited in the sum of N65million
The accused persons are alleged to have forged a document of the Federal Government titled: “Restricted, Federal Government of Nigeria, National Task Force,” and falsely held public offices as Director General and Director, FCT Command of National Task Force through which they fraudulently obtained money from sales of employment form
Ibekaku, who, according to a statement from the EFCC on Thursday has since resumed at her new duty post, had previously served in the External Cooperation Unit and the Training and Research Institute, now EFCC Academy, before her redeployment to the NFIU
The accused allegedly forged Export Clearance Permit, a document usually issued by the Ministry of Trade and Investment, and which is a major requirement for the lifting of crude oil
When the charges were read to the four accused persons, they pleaded not guilty.
The complainant, Ademola Oluwayemi, allegedly gave the accused, a staff of Intercontinental Homes Limited (now Access Bank), N10 million to open a fixed deposit account, which the accused told him was a criteria for buying a house from the said bank
The duo were moved to the Abuja office of the EFCC on Friday morning
The judge gave the order after he withdrew the bail he granted Gilmaska because she failed on two occasions to appear in court for her trial
Peters was alleged to have placed advertisements for lease of property in The Guardian newspaper of February 16, 2009 and a couple of other publications, using the name of his outfits: Diplomatic Service Consultancy Limited and Christian Defence Fellowship, a non-governmental organization