Justice James Tsoho of the Federal High Court in Abuja has ordered the final forfeiture of N732.85million unlawfully acquired by 17 former officials of the Presidential Amnesty Programme Office, to the Nigerian government.
The commission secured the forfeiture following the adoption of non-conviction based forfeiture proceedings. “Justice Tsoho had granted an interim forfeiture order on November 16, 2018, following the ex-parte application filed by the lawyer to the EFCC, Bar Abbah Mohammed. “Investigations by the EFCC had uncovered the various sums of N124,000,000; N320,000,000; N68,768,916; N1,900,000; N5,125,000; N3,000,000; N28,595,755; N6,137,000; N40,000,000; N46,800,000; N16,315,000; N2,547,800; N3,900,000; N8,234,650; N6,800,000; N2,651,000, and N1,970,750 traced to the respondents, respectively.
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