Dasuki, Dokpesi, others charged with money laundering
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| Atawodi, Bafarawa, Dasuki and Dokpesi |
The Federal Government, yesterday, slammed 43-count charge on former
National Security Adviser, Col. Sambo Dasuki (retd); former Minister of
State for Finance, Bashir Yuguda; former Sokoto State Governor, Attahiru
Bafarawa and his son, Sagir.
Others charged with them by the Economic and Financial Crimes
Commission on behalf of the Federal Government are: High Chief Raymond
Dokpesi, founder and Chairman Emeritus of Daar Communications Plc and
Daar Investment and Holdings Limited; former Finance Director in the
office of the NSA, Shuaibu Salisu and Aminu Baba Kusa.
Other suspects charged by the anti-graft agency are private companies
said to have received huge sums from the ONSA without any clear and
specified reasons.
They are: Acacia Holdings Limited, Reliance Referral Hospital Limited and Dalhatu Investments Limited.
A breakdown of the charges, which Vanguard obtained last
night, showed that the former NSA, Dasuki, Shauibu Salisu, Aminu Baba
Kusa, Acacia Holdings Limited and Reliance Referral Hospital Limited
were slammed with a total of 19 charges bordering on money laundering,
diversion of public funds and breach of public trust among others.
Similarly, Bashir Yuguda, Sambo Dasuki, Shuaibu Salisu, Dalhatu
Investment Ltd, Sagir Attahiru and Attahiru Bafarawa were charged with
22 counts.
High Chief Dokpesi and his company, Daar Investment and Holdings Limited were slammed with two counts each.
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The cases have been filed with the Federal High Court but not yet
assigned to any judge, according to findings by our correspondent.
Vanguard had reported exclusively on Monday that the EFCC
was set to press charges against the suspects this week but did not
specify the date.
The agency had used most part of last Sunday grilling the suspects
and confronting them with details of the illicit transactions that made
the Federal Government to lose huge sums of money.
Dasuki has already challenged the Federal Government for trying to
investigate and bring him to book for the alleged offence and breach of
his fundamental rights.
The case is before Justice Ademola Adeniyi.
Also, Dokpesi in an ex-parte application he filed through his lawyer,
Mr. Mike Ozehkome, SAN, urged the court to grant him bail on liberal
terms, pending his formal arraignment before a court of competent
jurisdiction.
Instead of granting the motion, Justice Kolawole, in a chamber ruling
last Friday, ordered Dokpesi’s lawyer to go and put the Federal
Government on notice, even as he adjourned the matter till December 14.
The court also directed EFCC to produce Dokpesi before it on that day.
However, few hours after the order was made, EFCC granted administrative bail to Dokpesi.
In his application dated December 3, Dokpesi told the court that he
was detained for more than 48 hours without the EFCC entering any charge
against him.
Ozehkome told the court that his client was on December 1 summoned
via the telephone to report to the EFCC headquarters in Abuja.
He said Dokpesi has since then remained in custody on the anti-graft
agency, adding that he was grilled for so many hours despite the fact
that he did not have fore knowledge of why he was wanted by the EFCC.
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