$300m Abacha loot: Between officialEFCC and U.S. Senator
examines the legal implications of the war of words between the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission and American Senatorome senior Nigerian lawyers have weighed-in on the recent altercation between the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission , and a prominent United States of America Senator, Charles Grassley, who is the Chairman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Finance.Grassley reportedly wrote a letter to the Chairman of the Money Laundering and Asset Recovery Section of the U.S.
He contended that any fair-minded person will score the Commission’s performance under Magu creditably well based on publicly available information about the commission’s work. Okpaleke said that he felt that such model of cooperation between EFCC and the U.S.A. FBI should have been one of the areas of focus by the U.S Senator and in respect of which he ought to encourage greater cooperation between the U.S. government and its agencies and the Nigerian government and its agencies.
He further suggested that the Commission should also respect the informal classification of offences into what he said could be loosely termed as “process” or “administrative” crimes and “substantive” crimes. Courts, particularly the Federal High Court, appear to have generally tended to approve most plea bargain agreements entered into by the EFCC and defendants being prosecuted by it, with such defendants being convicted but sentenced to lesser punishment, suggesting that the “oppressive” tag foisted on the EFCC and its Acting Chairman by Senator Grassley may after all be ill-informed.
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