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The Financial and Monetary Crimes Fee (EFCC) has stated that it might enchantment a judgement acquitting Stephen Oronsaye, former head of service of the federation, of the N2 billion cash laundering cost introduced towards him.
Oronsaye was in 2016 arraigned alongside Osarenkhoe Afe, Managing Director of Fedrick Hamilton World Companies Restricted, on a 49-count cost. The fees had been later amended to 22, after it was separated from that of the previous head of the Presidential Pension Job Power, Abdulrasheed Maina, who was then at giant.
The previous Head of Service was accused of utilizing three firms; Cluster Logistic Restricted, Kangolo Dynamic Cleansing Restricted, and Drew Funding & Development Firm Restricted, to divert cash throughout the civil service biometric information challenge.
Ruling on the case on Monday, June 5, Justice Inyang Ekwo held that the allegations by the EFCC lacked advantage as they failed to offer enough proof to warrant Oronsaye’s conviction.
Nevertheless, the anti-graft accused the decide of overlooking the proof of the 21 witnesses known as in throughout the trial in addition to the confessional assertion of one of many defendants, Osarenkhoe Afe.
