Money-laundering: Fani-Kayode knows fate today

 

Judgment will be delivered today in the trial of a former Minister of Aviation, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode.

The former Director of Media and Publicity of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Presidential Campaign is accused of money laundering.

Justice Rita Ofili-Ajumogobia decided not to deliver the verdict on June 18 because the prosecution counsel, Mr. Festus Keyamo, was absent.

Fani-Kayode, while serving as minister of Culture and Tourism, was accused of making a transaction exceeding N500,000 on September 20, 2006, which was not done through a financial institution.

He was accused of accepting N2.1 million in cash, which was paid into his personal bank account by his aide, Supo Agbaje.

The defendant pleaded not guilty to the alleged offence, which the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) said contravened the Money Laundering Act.

The judge had, last November 17, directed Fani-Kayode to defend two of the 40-count charges.

The judge held that the commission did not prove the other counts sufficiently and partially upheld Fani-Kayode’s no-case submission.

She discharged and acquitted him of the rest of the 38 counts on the grounds that the prosecution failed to prove “elements” of the allegations.

Fani-Kayode, therefore, defended counts 25 and 26.

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2 Responses to “Money-laundering: Fani-Kayode knows fate today”

  1. Unknown's avatar

    The dude is going free, that’s his fate, till Nigeria is free from corruption

  2. Unknown's avatar

    Let him go to jail

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