Ex-Air Vice Marshal (AVM) Tony Omenyi has been found guilty and sentenced to seven years imprisonment by Justice Dimgba of the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, over his role in the Arms-gate scandal.
According to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) Tony Omenyi who is a former Managing Director of Aeronautical Engineering and Technical Services Limited, a subsidiary company of NAF, was charged in 2014 for money laundering charges as he was accused of receiving the sum of N136million naira as kickbacks from SkyExperts Nigeria Limited, in 2014.
Delivering judgment on the three counts preferred against the convict, Justice Nnamdi Dimgba, sentenced Tony Omenyi to seven years imprisonment on each of the three counts but ruled that the sentences should run concurrently.
The judge also ordered that the company, Huzee Nigeria Limited, through which the Tony Omenyi was said to have received the sum of N136m from the contractor, SkyExperts Nigeria Limited, be wound up by the Federal Government.
The court also ordered that the sum of N62m already recovered from the convicts by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission be forfeited to the Federal Government.
Details coming up shortly.