The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has filed seven counts of money laundering and other related charges against the National Publicity Secretary of PDP, Chief Olisa Metuh.
In the charge against the Metuh filed at the Federal High Court, Abuja, the name of a former Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the party, Chief Tony Anenih, also came up as having being paid N21.7m from the N400m Metuh collected secretly from Goodluck Jonathan.
Sources in Abuja told My247gist.Com that the revelations against Metuh are shocking...
The N21.7m is different from the N260m said to have been paid to Anenih by ex-NSA Sambo Dasuki as was revealed by the EFCC in one of the separate set of charges of misappropriation of arms funds preferred against Dasuki and others in the Federal Capital Territory High Court, Maitama.
The EFCC named Anenih as one of the beneficiaries of the N400m collected by Metuh from the office of the NSA in the seven counts of money laundering it filed on Thursday against the PDP’s spokesperson and a company, Destra Investments Limited.
The commission alleged in the fresh money laundering case that Metuh and Destra, through their account with Diamond Bank Plc, collected N400m from the NSA office on November 22, 2014.
The prosecution revealed that the N400m is “part of the proceeds of an unlawful activity” of the immediate past NSA, Dasuki and others.
In the charges, Metuh and Destra allegedly transferred the sum of N21.7m to Anenih and they (Metuh and Destra) thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 15(2) (b) of the Money Laundering (Prohibition) Act, 2011 (as amended in 2012) and punishable under Section 15(3) of the same Act.
In counts five and six, Metuh, on December 2, 2014, made separate cash payments to Kabiru Ibrahim and Sie Iyenome of Capital Field Investments.
Both cash payments were said to have been made through an agent named Nneka Nicole Ararume.
In counts one and two, the EFCC alleged that Metuh and Destra Investments Limited “took possession” of the sum of N400m without contract award and converted the money.
The EFCC named Anenih as one of the beneficiaries of the N400m collected by Metuh from the office of the NSA in the seven counts of money laundering it filed on Thursday against the PDP’s spokesperson and a company, Destra Investments Limited.
The commission alleged in the fresh money laundering case that Metuh and Destra, through their account with Diamond Bank Plc, collected N400m from the NSA office on November 22, 2014.
The prosecution revealed that the N400m is “part of the proceeds of an unlawful activity” of the immediate past NSA, Dasuki and others.
In the charges, Metuh and Destra allegedly transferred the sum of N21.7m to Anenih and they (Metuh and Destra) thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 15(2) (b) of the Money Laundering (Prohibition) Act, 2011 (as amended in 2012) and punishable under Section 15(3) of the same Act.
In counts five and six, Metuh, on December 2, 2014, made separate cash payments to Kabiru Ibrahim and Sie Iyenome of Capital Field Investments.
Both cash payments were said to have been made through an agent named Nneka Nicole Ararume.
In counts one and two, the EFCC alleged that Metuh and Destra Investments Limited “took possession” of the sum of N400m without contract award and converted the money.
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