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PHOTO: Senator Peter Nwaoboshi Remanded In Prison For Alleged Money Laundering

image: Senator Nwaoboshi to spend more days in Prison

The Senator representing Delta North Senatorial District of Delta State, Senator Peter Nwaoboshi has been remanded in prison by a federal High Court sitting in Lagos over an alleged money laundering. The case which was presided over by Justice Mohammed Idris earlier today remanded the Senator in the custody of the Economic And Financial Crimes Commission, pending when his bail application will be heard by the court.

The Senator according to report, is being charged for allegedly laundering over N805million and was arraigned by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission alongside two other companies, named: Golden Touch Construction Projects Ltd, and Summing Electricals Ltd, on a two count charge bordering on fraud and money laundering before the Lagos federal high court under Justice Mohammed Idris.

One of the counts reads: 

That you,  Peter Nwaoboshi  and Golden  Touch Construction  Projects Limited,  between May and June,  2014, within the jurisdiction  of this honourable court, did acquire a property described as Guinea  House,  Marine Road,  Apala,  Lagos,  for the sum of N805million, when you reasonably ought to have known that the sum of N322 million out of the purchase price transferred to the vendors by order of Suinming Electricals Limited formed part of the proceeds of an unlawful  activity of fraud and you thereby committed an offence contrary  to Section 15(2) (d)  of the Money Laundering Prohibition Act  of 2011(as amended) and punishable  under Section (15)(3) of the same Act.

The defendant, who represents Delta North in the National Assembly,  pleaded not guilty when the charge was read to him. 

In view of his plea, the prosecution counsel,  M. S.  Abubakar, asked the court for a trial date and remand the defendant in prison custody. However,  counsel to the first defendant, Dr V. J. O. Azinge,  pleaded with the court to grant her client bail in liberal terms. 

Azinge,  who said the defendant did not jump the administrative bail granted him by the Commission,  further told the court that his client had a health challenge.

In his response,  the prosecution counsel urged the court not to hear the application on the grounds that the Commission was served with the application only on Tuesday,  April 24, 2018. 

“The prosecution  is currently filling its process at the Registry of the Court,” he added. 

When counsel to the first defendant told the court that the Commission was served on Monday,  April 23 and that it   refused service,  Abubakar countered, saying

” such service, from the details of the charge, should have been served at the Abuja office  of the Commission and not Lagos. “

The prosecution counsel,  who said he was ready to proceed with the trial,  further told the court that ” My Lord,  even  if the service was properly done,  it is still not ripe for hearing because the rules provide for two clear days. “

The prosecution counsel, therefore, pleaded with the court to stand down the case. Consequently,  Justice Idris stood down the case for some hours  to hear the bail application. 

When the case was later called up,  Justice ordered the defendant  to be remanded in Ikoyi prisons and adjourned the case to Friday,  April 27, 2018  for ruling on bail application.

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