Anti-corruption and elections / EFCC

N3.6bn Fraud: How Omatsuli, Co-Defendant Moved Over N1bn NDDC Funds To Private Accounts-Witness

A prosecution witness, Soridei Akene, in the ongoing trial of Tuoyo Omatsuli, a former Executive Director on Projects, Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, and Francis Momoh, on Friday, April 12, 2019, told Justice Saliu Seidu of the Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos how over N1bn was moved from the Commission to some private companies belonging to the defendants and other individuals. The defendants, who were charged alongside their companies, Don Parker Properties Limited and Building Associates Limited respectively, were arraigned on November 10, 2018 on a 45-count charge bord…