The federal excessive Courtroom in Lagos, on Tuesday, canceled the N21.5 billion laundry cost favored by former Chief of Air Workers, Adesola Amosun, and two others by the Financial and Monetary Crimes Fee (EFCC).
The EFCC had on June 29, 2016, charged Amosun together with a former Head of Accounts and Budgeting of the Nigerian Air Power, Air Vice Marshal Jacob Adigun, and a former Director of Finance and Funds, Air Commodore Gbadebo Olugbenga, on a cost of 26 prices.
However they have been re-arraigned earlier than Justice Chukwujekwu Aneke in an amended 13-count indictment marked FHC/L/280C/16 for cash laundering to the tune of N21.5 billion.
The defendants have been prosecuted for allegedly conspiring and changing NAF funds to private use.
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In a ruling on Tuesday on the appliance filed by the suspects asking the court docket to quash the fees in opposition to them, Choose Aneke answered their prayers by upholding a preliminary objection difficult the court docket's jurisdiction to listen to the case on grounds from the truth that the suspects have been military officers on the time
Counsel had argued that the defendants may due to this fact solely be tried by court-martial as they have been nonetheless officers through the interval once they have been nonetheless officers.
The choose dominated: “As officers of the armed forces, they need to have been investigated and tried by the armed forces first, reasonably than making an attempt them earlier than this court docket.”
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He annulled the investigation in opposition to Amosun dated January 30, 2015.
Choose Aneke additionally quashed the amended prices in opposition to the suspects.
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