Anti-corruption and elections / EFCC

Alleged $1.6 Billion Oil Fraud: How Omokore Used Company’s Account to Launder Funds - Witness

The trial of embattled Chairman of Atlantic Energy Brass Development Limited and Atlantic Energy Drilling Concept Limited, Jide Omokore, continued on Friday, March 2, 2018 before Justice Nnamdi Dimgba of the Federal High Court sitting in Maitama, Abuja, with the sixth prosecution witness, Ayilara Abdul, giving revelations on how the defendant’s company’s account (Atlantic Energy) was used to launder millions of dollars suspected to be proceeds of oil fraud. Omokore, an ally of a former Petroleum Minister, Diezani Alison-Madueke is being prosecuted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commissio…