N4.6bn Ekiti Election Fund Fraud: Obanikoro Arraigned In Absentia, Fayose's Ally, Agbele, Docked And Remanded In Prison
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Wednesday, August 3, 2016, summoned a partner of Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti State, Abiodun Agbele, before Justice Nnamdi Dimgba of the Federal High Court sitting in Maitama, Abuja on a 11-check charge verging on IRS evasion to the tune of N1,219,000,000 (One Billion, Two Hundred and Nineteen Million Naira).The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Wednesday, August 3, 2016, summoned a partner of Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti State, Abiodun Agbele, before Justice Nnamdi Dimgba of the Federal High Court sitting in Maitama, Abuja on a 11-check charge verging on IRS evasion to the tune of N1,219,000,000 (One Billion, Two Hundred and Nineteen Million Naira).
The cash is a piece of the aggregate of N4, 685, 723,000, (Four Billion, Six Hundred and Eighty-five Million, Seven Hundred and Twenty-three Thousand Naira) purportedly exchanged from the Office of the National Security Adviser with Central Bank of Nigeria by Col. Mohammed Sambo Dasuki (Rtd).
Agbele was charged close by a previous Minister of Defense for State, Musliu Obanikoro; Sylvan Mcnamara Limited; Lt. A.O Adewale; Tunde Oshinowo and Olalekan Ogunseye (all on the loose).
One of the charges peruses:
"That you, Abiodun Agbele, Musliu Obanikoro (now everywhere), (while being the Minister of Defense for State), Sylvan Mcnamara Limited, LT. A.O Adewale (now everywhere), Tunde Oshinowo (now everywhere) and Olalekan Ogunseye (now everywhere) (while being the sole signatory to the Zenith Bank record of Sylvan Mcnamara Limited) at some point between the fourth day of April, 2014 and thirteenth November, 2014, contrived amongst yourselves to submit unlawful act to mind: washing the entirety of N4, 685, 723, 000.00 being whole exchanged from the Office of the National Security Adviser with Central Bank of Nigeria by Col. Mohammed Sambo Dasuki (Rtd) which you knew or sensibly should have realized that the said store framed part of the returns of an unlawful movement of Col. Mohammed Sambo Dasuki (Rtd) the then National Security Adviser, and you along these lines submitted an offense as opposed to Section 18(a) of the Money Laundering (Prohibition) Act, 2011 (As corrected in 2012) and culpable under segment 15 (3) of the same Act.
The blamed individual argued not blameworthy when the charges were perused to him.
In the perspective of his supplication, arraigning counsel, Johnson Ojogbane, requested a trial date and asked the court to remand the charged individual in jail.
Be that as it may, advice to the blamed individual, Mike Ozkhomhe encouraged the court to allow the charged individual abandon self-acknowledgment, including that the denounced individual had before been conceded managerial safeguard by the Commission.
However, Ojogbane kicked against the application, while looking for a quickened knowing about the case.According to him, ''the blamed is in contact with others on the loose.''
In the wake of listening to both advice, Justice Dimgba requested the blamed individual to be remanded in Kuje jail and settled Thursday, August 4, 2016, for the decision on the safeguard application.
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