MONEY LAUNDERING TRIAL: WE RECOVERED $1MILLION IN WARDROBE OF FORMER CHIEF OF AIR STAFF, SAYS WITNESS
Olujimi while relying on Section 379 of the Administration of Criminal Justice Act, 2015,argued, “I am for the first time seeing these documents in court now that the Registrar handed them over to me’.
“There is no doubt that the prosecutor did not include these two documents in the information he filed before this court. That means we have been deprived of the rights of an accused person by the law. These two documents ought to have accompanied the information which the court has”.
The counsel to the defendant further applied that the next date of hearing, which is March 1 be vacated to enable the defence study the documents and prepare their defence.
However, the EFCC counsel, Rotimi Jacob in his response argued that the documents had been made available to the defence when the EFCC’s investigating officer (who testified as PW19) gave his evidence and offered to avail the defence counsel copies of the documents.
The former Air force boss is facing trial alongside Iyalikam Nigeria Limited, on a 10-count charge of money laundering to the tune of N3.9billion. He was also alleged to have between January and December, 2013, used dollar equivalent of N1.4 billion removed from the accounts of the Nigerian Air Force to purchase a mansion situated at No. 6,Ogun River Street, Off Danube Street, Maitama, Abuja.
Meanwhile, Justice Abang adjourned to March 14 for continuation of trial.
