Alleged $2m Fraud: You Have A Case To Answer Court Tells Ex-NHIS Boss, Femi Thomas
Justice Ayokunle Faji of the Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos, on March 13, 2020, dismissed the no-case submission filed by a former Executive Secretary, National Health Insurance Scheme, NHIS, Dr. Olufemi Martins Thomas, to stop his criminal trial for alleged money laundering to the tune of $2,198,900.
At the last sitting, Thomas filed a preliminary objection of no-case submission that the court did not have jurisdiction in view of the earlier judgment in a fundamental case before the Court of Appeal. At the resumed sitting, Justice Faji, in a short ruling, dismissed all the grounds of preliminary objections by the defendant.
With respect to the offences in the charge, the Judge held that the charges re-instated the element of the offences as created under Section 15 of the Money Laundering Prohibition Act and, is, therefore, valid. “Furthermore, on counts one, two and three bordering on disguising and concealing the origin of the money, the court considered the testimonies of the first, second, third, fourth, fifth and sixth prosecution witnesses, which showed that the first defendant was a public officer who had only N4m , when he assumed office and had a total income of N63m .
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