Former Acting-Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes
Commission, Ibrahim Magu, has been exonerated over the claim that one Pastor
Emmanuel Omale of the Divine Hand of God Prophetic Ministry and his wife,
Deborah aided him in laundering N573million.
In a judgment on Tuesday, following a suit marked:
FCT/HC/CV2541/2020, filed by Omale, his wife and the church, Justice Yusuf
Halilu exonerated Magu of money laundering.
During the investigation of Magu by the Justice Isa Salami-led
presidential investigation panel, it was alleged that an investigation by the
Nigerian Financial Intelligence Unit, revealed that Magu paid N573million into
Omale’s church’s account with which property was allegedly bought in Dubai, the
United Arab Emirates.
However, in his verdict, Justice Halilu noted that the
evidence before his court showed that Omale’s bank admitted error in its report
to the NFIU, of entries in Divine Hand of God Prophetic Ministry’s account.
The judge further held that the bank claimed that the
purported N573 million was wrongly reflected as a credit entry in Divine Hand
of God Prophetic Ministry’s account by its reporting system, which it recently
upgraded.
Justice Halilu noted that the bank admitted the error, which
occasioned incalculable damage to the reputation of Pastor Omale, his wife, and
their church both within and outside the country.
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