{"id":70621,"date":"2019-11-27T19:48:34","date_gmt":"2019-11-27T18:48:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=70621"},"modified":"2019-11-27T19:48:34","modified_gmt":"2019-11-27T18:48:34","slug":"efcc-denies-dropping-charges-against-dieziani","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/efcc-denies-dropping-charges-against-dieziani\/","title":{"rendered":"EFCC Denies Dropping Charges Against Dieziani"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has denounced reports currently circulating in the social media, purporting that the Commission had dropped the criminal charges against a former minister of petroleum resources, Diezani Alison-Madueke and other persons indicted for money laundering.<\/p>\n

The Commission, in a statement, enjoins members of the public to disregard the report which is false and misleading. At no time did the Commission withdraw the charge, which is still before Justice Muslim Hassan of the Federal High Court, Lagos.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe only development was that the Commission took a prosecutorial decision to split the initial 14-count charge to enable separate arraignment of the defendants following a spate of adjournments that prevented the arraignment of the defendants more than one year after the case was listed,\u201d it stated.<\/p>\n

The charges were first filed on November 28, 2018. Since then, every attempt to arraign the defendants had been frustrated by one excuse or the other.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn more than four times that the matter was called for arraignment, it was either that Lanre Adesanya was sick and bedridden in a London Hospital or Nnamdi Okonkwo was hypertensive and on admission in a hospital or Stanley Lawson had had a domestic accident and could not appear in court.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was clear that these recurring excuses were ploys to frustrate the arraignment. To get around this, the Commission took a deliberate decision, which was disclosed in open court, to separately prosecute the defendants in different courts.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis explains why the four count amended charge brought against Dauda Lawal, a former executive director of First Bank, did not include other defendants, except the two who are at large (Diezani Alison-Madueke and Ben Otti).<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd the ingredients of the offence stated therein only pertains to Lawal\u2019s involvement in the alleged crime, which is the receipt of $25million from the $153million 2015 Peoples Democratic Party presidential election slush fund.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe non-inclusion of other defendants in the original charge in the amended four count charge does not mean that have been exonerated by the Commission of any criminal allegation.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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