Afrigather The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) offered further proof towards MICAD Mission Metropolis Providers Restricted and James Nolan earlier than Justice Obiora Egwuatu of the Federal Capital Territory Excessive Courtroom, Abuja, on Monday, March 11, 2024.
This replace was introduced in a press release by the Head of Media and Publicity of the anti-graft company, Dele Oyewale.
Micad Mission Metropolis Providers Restricted and James Nolan face trial on a 20-count cost, together with acquiring by pretense, non-compliance with the Cash Laundering Act 2011 (as amended), and prison conversion of proceeds of crime amounting to N151,394,328.00.
Particulars of the Courtroom Session
Through the court docket session, prosecution counsel Bala Sanga knowledgeable the court docket that the EFCC had submitted further proof on February 20, 2024. Protection counsel Michael Ajara confirmed receipt of the proof.
Sanga then offered the third prosecution witness, PW3, Nnedimma Irene Eyisi, a lawyer, who detailed James Nolan’s request to resume himself as Director of MICAD.
Eyisi defined that she acquired directions from her principal in 2016 concerning submitting a CAC doc for a shopper, later recognized as James Nolan.
“Generally in 2016, my principal knowledgeable me {that a} shopper would give me a type to file a CAC doc.
“Later that day, I acquired a name from a shopper who launched himself as James Nolan, he knowledgeable me he wanted to resume himself because the director of the corporate.
“I requested him to provide me particulars in regards to the administrators of the corporate and he did. I knowledgeable him I’ll put together a CAC Type 7, in order that the required administrators will signal”, she mentioned.
Eyisi disclosed that she was invited by the EFCC concerning the CAC Type 7 and offered a press release on August 31, 2021.
Sanga requested the court docket’s permission to confess the doc as proof, which was granted by Justice Egwuatu, marking it as Exhibit J.
Throughout cross-examination, Eyisi confirmed dispatching the shape for signatures and asserted that each one required signatures have been obtained earlier than submission to the CAC.
The decide adjourned the proceedings to March 12, 2024, for the continuation of the listening to.
Through the earlier session on January 18, 2024, second prosecution counsel PW2, Hussain Babangida, knowledgeable the court docket of how administrators of Micad Metropolis Providers Ltd. absconded with roughly N39,450,224.23 owed as taxes to the Federal authorities utilizing faux signatures.
