Crime
‘N109bn Fraud’: EFCC Deceived Me, Promised Soft Landing If I Implicated Finance Minister — Ex-AGF Tells Court
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has told the Federal Capital Territory High Court that the former Accountant General of the Federation, Ahmed Idris, voluntarily made statements in a fraud case instituted against him and three others prior to the commencement of the matter.
Idris and three others were arraigned and rearraigned before the court in a case bordering on fraud to the tune of N109 billion.
TrackNews reported that the EFCC had on July 22 arraigned Idris, Godfrey Olusegun Akindele, Mohammed Kudu Usman and Gezawa Commodity Market and Exchange Limited before the same court on 14 count bordering on gratification, stealing and criminal breach of trust to the tune of N109,485,572,691.
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The defendants had pleaded not guilty at the time while Justice Y. Halilu granted them bail.
At the resumption of proceedings on Thursday, the EFCC investigator, Hayatudeen Suleiman, denied obtaining some of the confessional statements of the defendants by force.
“The defendant came along with his legal representative in the person of Gbenga Adeyemi, who witnessed the statement from the beginning to the end and he also signed.
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