4 serving police officers in trouble as EFCC takes action against them over alleged diversion of N1.3bn (see names)The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) is set to arraign four officers of the Nigeria Police Force (NPF) and two firms before the Lagos state special offences court in Ikeja for allegedly diverting N1,301,334,108.
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) is set to arraign four officers of the Nigeria Police Force (NPF) and two firms before the Lagos state special offences court in Ikeja for allegedly diverting N1,301,334,108 from the coffers of the law enforcement agency.
The officers are facing 14-count charge before the anti-corruption agency.
The Nigerian Tribune reports that the defendants, who were charged before Justice Sherifat Solebo, include Olumide Odumosu, Sule Tegina, Helen Nwafor and Okpalugo Ifeoma.
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Others are Olu Osmond Nigeria Limited and Jemmy Yus Investment Nigeria Limited.
The report said the charge, marked, Temp/39698/2018, shows the EFCC alleging that the defendants stole the N1.3 billion from the coffers of the Nigeria Police Force and fraudulently converted it to their own between 2013 and 2014.
According to the charges, the defendants allegedly conspired with one Ogbadu Joseph and one Hassan Muhammed, who were said to be at large.
The report said the prosecuting counsel for the EFCC, Rotimi Oyedepo, said the defendants acted contrary to section 409 of the criminal law of Lagos state, 2011 and were liable to be punished under section 285(1) of the same act.
Legit.ng learnt that the defendants were supposed to be arraigned in court on Thursday, November 1, but the proceedings were stalled as one of them, Helen Nwafor, explained that she did not understand English language and would require the charges to be translated to her in Igbo language.
The case has been adjourned till November 7, 2018, to get an Igbo interpreter.
It was learnt that the defence counsel, AO Osinfowora, asked that the defendants should be returned to the custody of the EFCC.
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However, Justice Solebo ordered that the defendants be remanded in prison custody.
Legit.ng earlier reported that an application by the EFCC to arrest and detain a former Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) chairman, Haliru Bello, was denied by a Federal High Court in Abuja.
It was gathered that Bello is facing trial on alleged diversion of funds from the office of former National Security Adviser (NSA), Sambo Dasuki.
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4 serving police officers in trouble as EFCC takes action against them over alleged diversion of N1.3bn (see names)
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