Alleged N33.2bn fraud: Courtroom adjourns case in opposition to Dasuki, others 

An Abuja Excessive Courtroom on Tuesday adjourned the trial of former National Security Adviser, retired Col. Sambo Dasuki, till Oct. 21 to allow the EFCC to checklist a witness to testify within the case.

Dasuki is standing trial on an amended 32-count cost bordering on legal breach of belief, dishonest launch and receiving numerous sums of cash to the tune of N33.2 billion.

He was accused of misappropriation of safety funds within the accounts of the Workplace of the National Security Adviser (ONSA), alongside a former Basic Supervisor with the Nigerian Nationwide Petroleum Company (NNPC), Aminu Baba-Kusa.

Others are two corporations: Acacia Holdings Restricted and Reliance Referral Hospital Restricted.

The EFCC arraigned the 4 defendants afresh on March 25 and accused Dasuki, amongst others, of releasing the equal of N10 billion in foreign currency echange from the NSA’s account.

The account with the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) for the 2014 presidential main election of the then ruling Folks’s Democratic Party (PDP).

Dasuki and his co-defendants, nevertheless, pleaded not responsible to the fees, marked as FCT/HC/CR/43/2015.

On the resumed listening to of the case, the prosecution witness, Adariku Michael, a detective with the EFCC, knowledgeable the court docket that the anti-corruption fee obtained an intelligence report on Sept. 21, 2015, bordering on abuse of workplace and cash laundering.

He alleged the NSA moved big sums of cash between October 2014 and April 2015 to accounts of assorted firms.

The witness stated the report was assigned to a particular taskforce crew headed by ACE 1 Halimah Kazeem, of which he was a member, to hold out investigations on the report.

“I acquired to learn about this case when the fee (EFCC) obtained an intelligence report on Sept. 21, 2015, bordering on abuse of workplace and cash laundering.

The witness stated that on receiving the report, the particular process power promptly swung into motion and wrote a letter of investigation actions to the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN).

It was at this level that counsel for Baba-Kusa, Solomon Umoh SAN, informed the court docket that the witness was not listed by the prosecution on the checklist of witnesses within the paper the EFCC served the defence crew.

“That is in opposition to the provisions of Part 379 of the Administration of Legal Justice Act (ACJA),” he stated.

The prosecution counsel, Oluwaleke Atolagbe, nevertheless, informed the court docket that the witness had given proof earlier than the Chief Choose within the case.

He additional submitted that a number of paperwork had been tendered by the prosecution as displays by the witness.

”This case had lasted virtually 10 years,” he stated.

Atolagbe, nevertheless, sought an adjournment for the prosecution to do the needful.

This was not opposed by the defence crew.

Based mostly on this, the presiding decide, Justice Charles Agbaza, adjourned the case till Oct. 31 for continuation of listening to. (NAN)