The
Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on Tuesday arraigned a former
Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Jumoke Akinjide, for
allegedly laundering a sum of N650m.
Akinjide was arraigned alongside Senator Ayo Adeseun and Chief Olanrewaju Otiti before the Federal High Court in Lagos.
The
EFCC, in the 24 charges filed against the defendants, alleged that they
collected the sum of N650m from a former Minister of Petroleum
Resources, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke, in the build-up to the 2015
general elections.
The anti-graft agency claimed that they ought
to have “reasonably known that the money formed part of proceeds of an
unlawful act.”
Counsel for the EFCC, Rotimi Oyedepo, said they
acted contrary to Section 18(a) of the Money Laundering (Prohibition)
Act, 2012, and were liable to punishment under Section 15(3) and 4 of
the same Act.
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