Money laundering: Court orders seizure of ex-AGoF, Nwabuoku’s assets
A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, has ordered seizure of property and funds in several bank accounts that were linked to a former acting Accountant-General of the Federation (AGF), Anamekwe Nwabuoku, who was earlier convicted and sentenced to eight years in prison. Nwabuoku was found complicit in an N868.4 million fraud on March 23. The court convicted him on a nine-count money laundering charge that was filed against him by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC. Meanwhile, in the ruling, Justice James Omotosho granted an order for the convict’s property and funds to be forfeited to the government. Funds in the different accounts contained in Schedule 1 of documents the anti-graft agency attached to the forfeiture application, include N12,526,206.55 in Temeeo Synergy Concept Limited’s Zenith Bank account number: 1016901286; N4,102,570.25 in Turge Global Investment Limited’s Zenith Bank account; 1016901279 and N682,904.36 in Laptev Bridge Limited’s Zenith Ba...