The four companies charged alongside a former
Special Adviser on Domestic Affairs to ex-President Jonathan, Waripamo
Dudafa, and two others with money laundering have pleaded guilty to the
offence.
The four companies pleaded guilty to conspiring with
Dudafa and the two others to launder a sum of $15, 591,700 before a
Federal High Court in Lagos on Thursday.
The companies are
Pluto Property and Investment Company Limited; Seagate Property
Development & Investment Co. Limited; Trans Ocean Property and
Investment Company Limited and Development Company Limited and Avalon
Global Property Development Company Limited.
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission had since frozen the $15.6m found in the four companies’ accounts in Skye Bank.
But wife of ex-President Jonathan, Patience, has sued the EFCC and Skye Bank, laying claims to the money.
Details later……