Money laundering: EFCC challenges acquittal of ex-Lagos Assembly Speaker Ikuforiji …C0NTINUE READING HERE >>>
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has filed an appeal challenging the acquittal of a former Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Adeyemi Ikuforiji, on charges of money laundering.
Ikuforiji and his former personal assistant, Oyebode Atoyebi, were in March 2012 charged before the Federal High Court, Lagos, on a 54-count charge bordering on alleged N338.8 million in money laundering.
After 12 years of protracted trial, the court on June 24, 2014, acquitted and discharged the duo.
Justice Mohammed Liman, who delivered the judgement, held that EFCC failed to prove…
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