This was contained in a statement issued by Wilson Uwujaren, the Head of Media and Publicity of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, on Friday in Abuja
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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