Alleged N33.2bn fraud: EFCC tenders more documents in evidence against Dasuki

Dasuki

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Friday tendered more evidence in the trial of retired Col. Sambo Dasuki and three others before an Abuja High Court.

Dasuki a former National Security Adviser (NSA)is charged with an amended 32-count charge bordering on criminal breach of trust, dishonest release and receiving various sums of money to the tune of N33.2 billion.

He was accused of misappropriation of security funds in the accounts of the Office of the National Security Adviser (ONSA), alongside a former General Manager with the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Aminu Baba-Kusa.

Others are two firms: Acacia Holdings Limited and Reliance Referral Hospital Limited.

The EFCC arraigned the four defendants afresh on, March 25 in a case that began in 2015.The anti-graft agency accused Dasuki, among others, of releasing the equivalent of N10billion in foreign currencies from the NSA’s account.

The account with the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) for the 2014 presidential primary election of the then ruling People’s Democratic Party (PDP).

Dasuki and his co-defendants, however, pleaded not guilty to the charges, marked as FCT/HC/CR/43/2015.

At the resumed hearing of the case , PW1, Adariku Michael, a detective with EFCC informed the court that the commission received intelligence report on Sept. 21, 2015 bordering on abuse of office and money laundering.He was taken in evidence by the prosecution counsel, Rotimi Jacobs, SAN.

He alleged that the Office of the National Security Adviser (ONSA) moved huge sums of money between October, 2014 and April, 2015 to accounts of various companies.

The witness said the report was assigned to a special task force headed by ACE Halimah Kazeem.