$1.6BN FRAUD: Omokore’s accounts were closed by worldwide freezing order – Witness

The Federal High Court in Abuja was on Wednesday told that the two companies’ accounts of Jide Omokore, had been closed down sequel to “a worldwide freezing order”.

It was stated that $1.6 billion proceeds of sales from government crude oil, allegedly diverted by the businessman, were logged in the accounts.

Mr. Adedayo Adesanmi, a Senior Manager with Stanbic IBTC Plc, where the money was deposited, stated this when he testified as the fourth prosecution witness in the ongoing trial of Omokore and others before Justice Nnamdi Dimgba.

Adesanmi is also the Relationship Manager for the two companies’ accounts said to have been frozen.

Omokore, his two companies, Atlantic Energy Brass Development Limited and Atlantic Energy Drilling Concepts Limited, and others, are being prosecuted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on nine counts of criminal diversion of about $1.6 billion alleged to be part of proceeds of sales of petroleum products belonging to the Federal Government.

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Prosecuted along the businessman are a former Managing Director of the Nigerian Petroleum Development Company, Victor Briggs; a former Group Executive Director, Exploration and Production of the NNPC, Abiye Membere; and a former Manager, Planning and Commercial of the NNPC, David Mbanefo.

When the case came up on Wednesday, Adesanmi while fielding questions from the lead prosecuting counsel, Mr. Rotimi Jacobs (SAN), explained that each of Atlantic Energy Brass Development Limited and Atlantic Energy Drilling Concepts Limited, had a naira and dollar accounts with Stanbic IBTC.

 

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