Showing posts with label Acquittal. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Acquittal. Show all posts

Friday, September 26, 2014

₦503m Fraud: EFCC to Appeal Lagos Speaker, Ikuforiji’s Acquittal





AFederal high court sitting in Lagos today discharged and acquitted the Lagos state House of Assembly Speaker, Hon Adeyemi Ikuforiji and his aide Oyebode Atoyebi of the N503m money laundering charges brought against them by EFCC. EFCC now says they plan to appeal the verdict. Find a statement they posted on their Facebook page below...
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Friday, May 16, 2014

Court Of Appeals Overturns Ibori's Acquittal, To Stand Trial Again in Nigeria




James Ibori to face trial in Nigeria upon the completion of his jail term in London.....


Six years after Justice Marcel Awokulehin sensationally struck out all 170-count charge of money laundering preferred against former governor of Delta State, James Onanefe Ibori by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, a three-man panel of justices at the Benin Division of the Court of Appeal today, May 15, 2014 ruled that the ex- governor who is currently serving a 13-year jail term in a London prison, has a case to answer.

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