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Court jails man one month for non-declaration of $40,000

Published on April 04, 2025 at 05:07 PM

A Federal High in Lagos has convicted and sentenced one Igboezue Emeka to one month imprisonment for money laundering.

The convict was arrested on February 12, 2025 at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Ikeja, Lagos by operatives of the Nigeria Customs Service, NCS, for false currency declaration to the tune of $40,000( Forty Thousand United States of America Dollars).

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, made this known in a post on its X handle on Friday.

EFCC stated that the NCS had, on the same day, handed him over to its Lagos Zonal Directorate 1 office for further investigations and prosecution.

Consequently, he was arraigned before Justice A.O.Owoeye of the Federal High court in Lagos, on Friday, April 4, 2025, on one-count charge bordering on money laundering.

He pleaded guilty to the charge when it was read to him.

Following his guilty plea, prosecution counsel, Nnaemeka Omewa, called on Michael Olayemi, an operative of the EFCC, to review the facts of the case.

Olayemi told the court about the events that led to the investigation of the defendant.

Omewa, thereafter, sought to tender the defendant’s statement and the monetary exhibit recovered from him.

The Judge admitted the documents and marked them as exhibits.

Justice Owoeye thereafter found Igboezue guilty and sentenced him to one month imprisonment, with effect from the date of his arrest on February 12, 2025.

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