Anti-corruption and elections / EFCC

Alleged N3.6bn Fraud: Court Adjourns Ex-NDDC Boss, Omatsuli’s Trial To Feb 11

Justice Salisu Seidu of the Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos, has adjourned the N3.6 billion fraud trial involving a former Executive Director on Projects, Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, Tuoyo Omatsuli and Francis Momoh to February 11, 2019. The defendants, who were charged along with their companies, Don Parker Properties Limited and Building Associates Limited respectively, were arraigned on November 10, 2018 on a 45-count charge bordering on conspiracy and money laundering to the tune of N3,645,000,000 (Three Billion, Six Hundred and Forty-Five Million Naira) only. The