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Justice James Omotosho of the Federal High Court on Wednesday sentenced former Minister of Power, Saleh Mamman, to 75 years imprisonment in absentia over a N33. 8bn money laundering and fraud case instituted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission. The court convicted Mamman on all 12 counts filed against him by the anti-graft agency, holding that the prosecution proved its case beyond reasonable doubt.
Justice Omotosho ordered that the prison terms would run consecutively and not concurrently, bringing the total jail term to 75 years. In Count One of the charges, the anti-graft agency indicated “That you, SALEH MAMMAN (Male), sometime in 2019… whilst you were the Minister of Power, conspired with other officials of your ministry and some private companies to indirectly convert the total sum of N33,804,830,503.
73 (Thirty-Three Billion, Eight Hundred and Four Million, Eight Hundred and Thirty Thousand, Five Hundred and Three Naira, and Seventy-Three Kobo). ” The EFCC showed the crime constituted a criminal breach of trust, “contrary to Sections 18(a), 15(2)(b) of the Money Laundering (Prohibition) Act, 2011 {as Amended), and punishable under Section 15(3) of the same Act.
” The agency further alleged that part of the funds was routed through Bureau De Change operators, who converted the money into foreign currencies and delivered same to Mamman and his associates. In Count Two, the EFCC indicated the former minister, in December 2019, conspired with one Samson Bitrus to make a cash payment of US$665,700. 00 (Six Hundred and Sixty-Five.
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