A Federal High Court, Abuja, on Thursday, ordered the management of the Nigerian Correctional Service (NCoS) management in Kuje, FCT, to take the ailing and detained Binance executive, Tigran Gambaryan, to a hospital for a medicare. Justice Emeka Nwite gave the order following an application by Gambaryan’s counsel,...
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A Fidelity Bank compliance officer, Mr Ezekoli Ozoemenam, on Monday testified against a social media celebrity, Ismaila Mustapha (alias Mompha) charged with six billion Naira money laundering. Ozoemenam, the fourth prosecution witness, was led in evidence by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) counsel, Mr Suleiman Suleiman. The...
A Federal High Court, Abuja, on Friday dismissed a bail application filed by the detained Binance executive, Tigran Gambaryan. Justice Emeka Nwite, in a ruling, held that based on the affidavit evidence before him, Gambaryan would jump bail if the application is granted. “I have carefully considered the...
A Federal High Court, Abuja, on Monday, adjourned two separate money laundering suits filed by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) against British national, James Nolan, bi and two other companies for judgment. Justice Donatus Okorowo adjourned the suits for judgment after counsel for the EFCC, Bala...
C The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), on Thursday, presented two witnesses in the trial of Binance Holdings Ltd and its two executives before a Federal High Court, Abuja. EFCC’s lawyer, Ekele Iheanacho, informed Justice Emeka Nwite upon resumed trial in the money laundering trial. The News Agency...
A Federal High Court, Abuja, on Thursday, adjourned further hearing in the alleged money laundering charges against Ali Bello and three others until May 27. Justice Obiora Egwuatu adjourned the trial following the conclusion of evidence-in-chief by the 2nd witness of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC)...
German police said Wednesday they had arrested 11 suspected members of a Nigerian mafia group behind a large-scale dating scam. The Black Axe gang was involved internationally in “multiple areas of criminal activity”, with a focus in Germany on romance scams and money-laundering, Bavarian police said in...
A Federal High Court Abuja, on Tuesday, fixed May 17 for a ruling on a bail application filed by the detained Binance executive, Tigran Gambaryan. Justice Emeka Nwite fixed the date after counsel for the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and Gambaryan’s lawyer, Mark Mordi, SAN, adopted...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS) has placed the former Governor of Kogi State, Yahaya Bello under its watch list. It would be recalled that Bello was declared wanted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) for an alleged financial crime to the...
A Federal High Court, Abuja, on Friday, dismissed the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC)’s money laundering charge filed against former Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF) and Minister of Justice, Mohammed Adoke. Justice Inyang Ekwo, in a ruling on Adoke’s no-case submission, said he found that the EFCC...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has warned members of the public against obstruction of its operations, saying it is a criminal offence EFCC Spokesperson Dele Oyewale in a statement on Thursday said: ”It is a criminal offence to obstruct the commission’s officers from carrying out their...
Former Governor of Kogi, Yahaya Bello on Wednesday, called on President Bola Tinubu to call the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to order over alleged flagrant disobedience to court orders. The former governor, in a statement issued by his media officer, Mr Onogwu Muhammed in Abuja, said...
Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) laid siege to the residence of former Kogi governor, Alhaji Yahaya Belloaaa in Wuse, Abuja on Wednesday. The state’s sitting governor and Bello’s successor, Alhaji Ahmed Ododo and his motorcade were seen around the premises. One of the operatives...
A Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) employee, Mr Monday Osazuwa, on Friday told an Ikeja Special Offences Court how the former apex bank governor, Godwin Emefiele, on different occasions, directed him to collect three million dollars cash in tranches. Osasuwa, while being led in evidence by the Economic...
A Federal High Court in Lagos State, on Friday, sentenced convicted cross dresser, Idris Okuneye (alias Bobrisky), to six months in prison for abuse of the Naira. The court did not give the cross dresser an option of fine. Bobrisky was prosecuted by the Economic and Financial...
The Sallah holiday on Tuesday stalled judgment by a Federal High Court Lagos against convicted cross dresser, Idris Okuneye, popularly known as Bobrisky, over naira abuse. Bobrisky was prosecuted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) for naira abuse. The court had convicted him on April 5,...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), on Monday, arraigned the Binance Holdings Limited’s executive, Tigran Gambaryan, on alleged money laundering charge following the dismissal of his objection by a Federal High Court, Abuja. Gambaryan was arraigned by the EFCC on five-count charge before Justice Emeka Nwite. He...
Justice Abimbola Awogboro of a Federal High Court in Lagos on Friday, convicted popular Nigerian cross dresser, Idris Okuneye also called “Bobrisky” of Naira abuse. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) charged Bobrisky with six counts of abuse and money laundering. The court convicted the defendant following...
Crossdresser, “Bobrisky’’ (Idris Okuneye) on Friday pleaded guilty to a four-count charge of abuse of the naira and money laundering preferred against him by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) at a Lagos court. He was originally arraigned on a six-count charge, but two of the charges were...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Thursday filed a six-count charge before a Federal High Court Lagos against Nigerian cross- dresser, Idris Okuneye, over alleged money laundering and mutilation of the naira. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Okuneye, popularly known as Bobrisky, was...