The companies who were accused of money laundering alongside
with former special adviser on domestic affairs to former president Goodluck
Jonathan Waripamo Dudafa, pleaded guilty to the charges, the Punch reports.
The companies are Pluto Property and Investment Company
Limited; Seagate Property Development & Investment Co. Limited; Trans Ocean
Property and Investment Company Limited and Development Company Limited and
Avalon Global Property Development Company Limited. The four companies accepted
that they were conspiring with Dudafa and the two others to avert a sum of $15,
591,700 before a Federal High Court in Lagos on September 15, Thursday.
The money involved in the case is the same money which
former First Lady, Patience Jonathan claimed belongs to her. While the
companies pleaded guilty, ex-presidential aide, the lawyer & banker all
pleaded not guilty to a 15 count amended charge.
The anti-graft agency had since frozen the $15.6m found in
the four companies’ accounts in Skye Bank. However, the wife of Jonathan,
Patience, has filed a suit against the EFCC and Skye Bank, laying claims to the
money. More details later.
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