Kakwagh, an EFCC operative and member of the anti-graft agency’s team
that investigated the petition leading the charges filed against Oronsaye, said
the accused, as the sole-signatory to the account, also issued a number cheques
to various individuals and in his name to make withdrawals from the account.
Kakwagh alleged that the ex-Head of Service unilaterally operated an
Access Bank account in the name of the presidential committee on FATF between
2012 and 2014 and received payments from the Central Bank of Nigeria through
the account without the knowledge of other members of the committee.
The anti-graft agency, which opened its case shortly after the
arraignment, accused Oronsaye of committing the alleged fraud on June 12, 2013
and December 30, 2014 using his position as the then Chairman of the
Presidential Committee on Financial Action Task Force.
The judge dismissed EFCC’s objection to Oronsaye’s bail application, but
added along with other bail conditions that the two sureties to be produced
must be resident in Abuja and must be serving or retired civil servant not less
than a director in the federal civil service o r its agencies.
A Federal High Court in Abuja had last year seized Oronsaye’s passport
on account of his ongoing trial for separate set of money laundering charges.
She said from the total of N285m, of which a
chunk of N240m was paid into the account by the CBN, Oronsaye invested N190m in
fixed deposit and converted it along with the accrued interest into personal
use.
She said Oronsaye received a total of N240m
from the CBN through the account, and that Oronsaye also made “five structured
payments” of N9m each, making a total of N45m, into the account in one day in
September 2013
No comments:
Post a Comment