The Financial and Financial Crimes Price (EFCC) has filed a 17-depend price to the tune of N2.9 billion against a old governor of Imo State, Senator Rochas Okorocha.
Okorocha, within the costs filed on Monday at the Federal Excessive Court in Abuja, used to be accused of conspiring with others, including a member of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and 5 companies to make a choice between public coffers.
Others listed as respondents to the swimsuit are Anyim Nyerere Chinenye, Naphtali World Minute, Ideally suited Salvage Multi Projects Minute, Consolid Projects Consulting Minute, Pramif World Minute, and Story World Ideas Minute.
The charges had been filed about the identical time Senator Okorocha used to be declaring his arrangement to hasten for the set apart of work of the president in 2023.
His co-accused, Nyerere, in step with sources, is the APC governorship candidate in Abia State during the 2015 elections and at present serves as a commissioner at the Nationwide Pension Price.
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The accused persons had been alleged to absorb stolen the said amount belonging to Imo State and local authorities areas within the advise in contravention of the Money Laundering Act 2011.
The charges claimed that the stolen funds had been diverted between October 2014 and February 2016 from the Imo State Govt Home’s chronicle and Imo State Joint Local Govt Venture’s chronicle.
Reports additionally published that Nyerere remains the Director of Consolid Projects Consulting Minute, Pramif World Minute, and Story World Ideas Minute, even as he holds a public set apart of work – potentially breaching the nation’s Code of Habits licensed pointers.
The timeline of the alleged diversions is highlighted beneath:
February 11, 2014: N67,500,000 – conspiracy between Mr Okorocha, Mr Nyerere, and Ideally suited Salvage Multi Projects Minute
August 28, 2014: N486,000,000 – conspiracy between Mr Okorocha, Mr Nyerere, and Ideally suited Salvage Multi Projects Minute
October 14, 2014: N900,000,000 – conspiracy between Mr Okorocha, Mr Nyerere, and Naphtali World Minute
August 4, 2015: N279,000,000 – conspiracy between Mr Okorocha, Mr Nyerere, and Naphtali World Minute
February 10, 2016: N243,000,000 – conspiracy between Mr Okorocha, Mr Nyerere, and Consolid Projects Consulting Minute
February 10, 2016: N200,000,000 – conspiracy between Mr Okorocha, Mr Nyerere, and Consolid Projects Consulting Minute
February 10, 2016: N243,000,000 – conspiracy between Mr Okorocha, Mr Nyerere, and Pramif World Minute
February 11, 2016: N243,000,000 – conspiracy between Mr Okorocha, Mr Nyerere, and Ideally suited Salvage Multi Projects Minute
February 12, 2016: N243,000,000 – conspiracy between Mr Okorocha, Mr Nyerere, and Story World Ideas Minute.
