A Federal High Court sitting in Sokoto has adjourned a case involving Economic and Financial Crime Commission and five Car dealer companies until eleventh of May 2022 for the adoption of final written addresses and possible judgement.
Speaking to newsmen shortly after the adjournment, council to the EFCC, Barrister Sa ad Hannafi Sa ad said the defendants who pleaded guilty were arraigned by the Special Control Unit Against Money Laundering of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission Sokoto state Command.
He said the defendants Shehu Ahmad, Shehu Mairiga, Aliyu Dauda, Tukur Shehu and Umaru Yabo; and their companies, Ijabah Motors, Jangwarzo General Motors, KGN Gumbi Motors, Daraja Motors 2, and Gamji Motors, allegedly failed to submit declarations of activities in line with the extant regulations on customers identification and interpretation of returns for transactions to the Special Control Unit of the EFCC.
He said the EFCC tendered all exhibits discovered during their investigation to the court by detective Ahmadu Bello of the Special Control Unit Against Money Laundering of the EFCC.
Barr.Sa ad Hannafi stressed that the exhibits which were not rejected by the defendant’s counsel was later marked as exhibits by the court.
The cases were presided by Justice James Kolawole Omotosho of the Federal High Court Sokoto state.
NASIR MALALI