Former Anambra State Governor Obiano is being prosecuted by the EFCC on N4 billion fraud charges.
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Mr Tahir said the commission’s officers, on Wednesday, fruitlessly knocked on the gate of the chambers of the lead defence counsel, Onyechi Ikpeazu, a SAN, to effect service of the filing as earlier ordered on Monday by the court. “Since there was nobody to open the gate for us to serve them, it was this morning that we served them and we are ready for the hearing.”
The counter-affidavit filed by EFCC was in response to an application filed by Mr Obiano to challenge the court’s jurisdiction to entertain the charges against him. The case, filed by the EFCC, detailed the nine companies allegedly used to divert the funds from the state government’s security vote account.
The anti-graft agency alleged in count two that between 30 October and 13 November 2018, a total sum of N95 million was paid from the security vote account into the bank account of S.Y. Panda Enterprises.
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