A prosecution witness, Tosin Owobo, an investigator with the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Tuesday, March 27, 2018, told Justice M.B. Idris of the Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos that the sums of N2.4 billion, $115,000, 12 properties and bullet-proof cars were recovered from a former Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshal Adeola Amosu(retd.). Amosu is standing trial alongside two serving senior Air Force officers: Air Vice Marshal Jacob Bola Adigun, a former Chief of Accounts and Budgeting and Air Commodore Gbadebo Owodunni Olugbenga, a former Director of Finance and Budget. Also charged with the accused are seven companies namely Delfina Oil and Gas limited, McAllan Oil and Gas limited, Hebron Housing and Properties Company Limited, Trapezites BDC, Fonds and Pricey Limited, Deegee Oil and Gas Limited, Timsegg Investment Limited and Solomon Health Care Limited. At the resumed hearing today, Owobo told the court that his team members, in the course of investigation, visited the properties, including St. Solomon Health Care, a residential building in Yaba and another residential building in Badagry, that were recovered from Amosu by the Commission.
Owobo, who is the second prosecution witness, PW2, also stated that the sum of N383m was recovered from the wife of the first defendant through a bank draft in favour of the Federal Government.
He also told the court that the third defendant made a draft of N100m to the Federal Government through the Commission's recovery account.
Led in evidence by the prosecution counsel, Rotimi Oyedepo, Owobo also stated that the Commission had secured interim forfeiture order on all the properties seized from Amosu and others. "After securing the interim forfeiture order, the Commission visited, marked, sealed and restricted all the properties to show the general public that the said properties are under investigations by the EFCC," he said.
Consequently, the court adjourned the case to April 18, 2018 for continuation of trial.
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