A Federal High Court in Abuja on Friday ordered the remand of an owner of Almond Projects Limited, Olugbenga Obadina, in Kuje prison, Abuja.
Justice Nnamdi Dimgba made the remand order after Obadina was arraigned by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on eight counts of money laundering.
The judge ordered that the accused should be kept in prison pending when his bail application would be heard and determined.
The EFCC on Friday arraigned Obadina and his company, Almond Projects Limited, on eight counts of money laundering involving alleged criminal breach of trust and corruption to the tune of N2.4bn.
Obadina allegedly collected N2, 417bn from the account of the Office of the National Security Adviser under Col. Sambo Dasuki (retd) without any contract award.
He allegedly collected the money through his company’s bank account in tranches between 2013 and 2015.
The accused pleaded not guilty to all the charges.
The alleged offences were said to be contrary to Section 15(2), (d) of the Money Laundering (Prohibition) Act 2011 as amended in 2012 and punishable under Section 15(3) of the same Act.
Some counts read in part, “That you, Olugbenga Obadina and Almond Projects Limited on April 3, 2014 in Abuja within the jurisdiction of this Honorable Court directly took possession or control of the sum of N648, 000, 000.00 (six hundred and forty eight million naira) only paid into the account of Almond Projects Ltd with Zenith Bank Plc account No: 1010921116 from the account of the office of the National Security Adviser with the Central Bank of Nigeria without contract award when you reasonably ought to have known that the said fund formed part of the proceeds of an unlawful activity of Col. Mohammed Sambo Dasuki (rtd) the then National Security Adviser (To wit: criminal breach of trust and corruption) and thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 15(2), (d) of the Money Laundering (Prohibition) Act, 2011 as amended in 2012 and punishable under Section 15(3) of the same Act.
“That you, Olugbenga Obadina and Almond Projects Ltd on the 6th of February, 2015 in Abuja within the jurisdiction of this Honorable Court directly took possession or control of the sum of N510, 000, 000.00 (Five Hundred and Ten Million Naira) only paid into the account of Almond Projects Ltd with Zenith Bank Plc Account No: 1010921116 from the account of the Office of the National Security Adviser with the Central Bank of Nigeria without contract award when you reasonably ought to have known that the said fund formed part of the proceeds of an unlawful activity of Col. Mohammed Sambo Dasuki (rtd) the then National Security Adviser (To wit: criminal breach of trust and corruption) and thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 15(2), (d) of the Money Laundering (Prohibition) Act, 2011 as amended in 2012 and punishable under Section 15(3) of the same Act.”
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