The
scheduled arraignment of the former head of the Nigeria Intelligence
Agency, Ayodele Oke, and his wife, Folashade, on Friday could not go on
as the defendants failed to present themselves to the Economic and
Financial Crimes Commission.
An EFCC prosecutor told journalists the commission would issue a statement shortly about the development.
The
couple had been scheduled to be arraigned before a federal court in
Lagos on a four-count charge of money laundering running into millions
of dollars.
A source within the EFCC told PREMIUM TIMES on
Thursday that they had been waiting for Mr Oke and his wife to report to
the agency’s Lagos office but without success.
Mr Oke
was removed from office in October 2017 after millions of dollars
belonging to the NIA were found in an apartment in Lagos.
In
count one of the charges filed by the EFCC, the couple were accused of
hiding $43 million belonging to the federal government in an apartment
in Osborne Towers, Ikoyi, Lagos.
The second count stated that the
couple indirectly used $1.6 million of government money to acquire an
apartment in Osborne Towers, Ikoyi.
The government listed 13
witnesses including those who would give evidence of how they received
almost $300 million from the Central Bank of Nigeria and delivered to Mr
Oke.
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