A Federal High Court in Jos, the Plateau State capital, has sentenced a former Minister of Water Resources, Mrs Sarah Ochekpe, to three months imprisonment. The court also sentenced a former Deputy Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the state, Raymond Dabo, and Evangelist Leo Sunday Jitung to three months imprisonment. The judgment […]
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A former spokesman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Olisa Metuh has been sentenced to 39 years in prison for money laundering. Okon Abang, judge of a federal high court Abuja, handed down the sentence on Tuesday. The judge had earlier found him guilty of the seven-count charge filed against him by the Economic and […]
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Comptroller-General of Customs, Col. Hameed Ali (Rtd) on Tuesday disclosed that the Custom Command at the Murtala Mohammed International Airport had intercepted 8.06 million U.S. dollars from the airport. Ali, during a media briefing in Lagos, said that the dollars loaded in six big `bagco’ bags were packed in a coaster bus belonging to the […]
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The Federal Government of Nigeria has alleged that over $400billion was laundered and stashed abroad by corrupt leaders in the country and their foreign accomplices. The Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, made the disclosure in a speech he presented at the eighth session of the Conference of States Parties to […]
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UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has appealed to the international community to take action against the flow of illegal funds, money-laundering and tax evasion, which cost Africa 50 billion dollars every year. Guterres, who made the appeal in Addis Ababa at the Second Annual UN-African Union Conference, said African resources should remain in Africa to support […]
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The Federal High Court in Benin has ordered that the Chairman of People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in Edo, Chief Dan Orbih, be remanded in prison custody if he failed to perfect his bail. The court had on Thursday granted the Orbih and Mr Osagie Ize-Iyamu, the 2016 governorship candidate, bail in the sum of N10 […]
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A former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Diezani Alison-Madueke, has expressed an intention to be joined in a criminal charge involving a senior advocate of Nigeria, Dele Belgore. Belgore was charged before Justice Mohammed Aikawa of a Federal High Court, Lagos, alongside a former Minister of National Planning, Prof. Abubakar Suleiman. The EFCC is prosecuting the […]
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In a statement by Wilson Uwujaren, Head of Media and Publicity of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, it was disclosed that operatives of the agency’s Kaduna zonal office, on Tuesday, March 14, 2017 intercepted a sum of N49million in five large black 150kg colored BUHU sacks following a tip off. During a routine baggage […]
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Former Aviation Minister, Femi Fani-Kayode on Monday, asked the Federal High Court Abuja, to adjourn his case to allow him explore other options of settlement aside from going to trial. Counsel to Fani-Kayode, Mr Ameh Raji (SAN) who made the application on his behalf said that since the sum of money involved was only N26 […]
Continue ReadingFour companies linked to the alleged money laundering case involving Patience Jonathan, wife of former President Goodluck Jonathan, pleaded guilty to the offence at a federal high court in Lagos on Thursday. The companies – Seagate Property Development & Investment Co. Limited; Pluto Property and Investment Company Limited; Trans Ocean Property and Investment Company Limited […]
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