The Commission said it is studying the details of the judgment and will approach the Court of Appeal immediately.
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A Federal High Court in Lagos on Friday called for further addresses from counsel in the trial of an ex-aide to former President Goodluck Jonathan, Waripamo Owei-Dudafa, charged with N1.6 billion money laundering.
EFCC arraigned the accused on June 11, 2013, before Justice Mohammed Idris on 23-counts of conspiracy to conceal proceeds of crime amounting.
Iwejuo, a staff of Heritage Bank, is standing trial alongside Waripamo-Owei Dudafa, a former presidential aide, on charges of N1.6 billion fraud.
Dudafa made the statement before a Federal High Court, Lagos, during his examination-in-chief.
A former Special Assistant to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan on Domestic Affairs, Dr. Waripamo-Owei Dudafa, has said the N1.6 billion linked to him as proceeds of fraud by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission was money donated to Anglican Communion of Otuoke community in Bayelsa State.
Justice Mohammed Idris reserved ruling after counsel representing parties had respectively adopted their written submissions before the court.
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission arraigned Owei-Dudafa, a former aide to then President Goodluck Jonathan, alongside one Joseph Iwejuo, on a 23-count charge bordering on conspiracy and concealment of crime proceeds.
A Senior Detective Superintendent with the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Chukwuma Orji, gave the evidence at the resumed trial of Dudafa over N5.1 billion fraud.
In his application, filed by his counsel, Kolawole Salami, Dudafa urged the court to order the release of his international passport to enable him travel abroad for medical care for spinal cord injury.
Justice Mohammed Idris ordered parties to file pleadings since issues had been joined as to the ownership of the money
Dudafa made the claim when he testified in his trial-within-trial at the Federal High Court, Lagos on Monday
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission had in August frozen the accounts of the four companies and seized the $15 million in the course of probing Dudafa for money laundering
The companies involved include Seagate Property Development & Investment Ltd, Avalon Global Property Development Company Ltd, Iwejuo Joseph Nna and Pluto LUTO Property and Investment Company Ltd
The four companies joined in the charge are Pluto Property and Investment Company Ltd; Seagate Property Development Co. Ltd; Trans Ocean Property and Investment Company Ltd and Avalon Global Property Development Company Ltd
A Bureau de Change operator, Murtala Abubakar, said he received about N1.6 billion from Dudafa through five companies
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