Justice Abdulazeez Anka of the Federal High Court, Lagos, has fixed February 23 to hear the application filed by Mike Ozekhome, SAN, asking the court to strike out its ruling directing the temporary forfeiture of N75 million belonging to the senior lawyer.
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has arraigned one Bashir Ishaq Bashir at the Federal Capital Territory, FCT High Court, on a three-count charge of obtaining by false pretence and cheating to the tune of $1 million.
A Federal High Court sitting in Kano presided over by Justice Zainab Abubakar on Monday ordered the forfeiture of the sum of $9,772,000 and £74,000 recovered from a former Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, Andrew Yakubu to the federal government.
The minister made this known in a statement issued on Sunday, adding that the said amount does not include the $9.2 million in cash allegedly owned by a former Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, though he said that was also a dividend of the whistle-blower policy.
Former Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, Andrew Yakubu claims that the huge amount of dollars and Pound sterling recovered from his house in Kaduna by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, were gifts.
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has revealed that it found a total of $9.2 Million and 750,000 pounds in the Kaduna residence of former Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, Andrew Yakubu.
