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The justice of the apex court, who was charged following the raid on his house and some other judges by operatives of the Department of State Service, pleaded not guilty to all the 16 counts read to him on Monday.
It was alleged in the 16 counts that Ngwuta transferred the total sum of N505m “denominated in naira and US dollars” to a building contractor, Nwamba Linus Chukwuebuka, between January and May 2016.
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| Justice Ngwuta Photo credit: Punch |
The N505m was alleged to be part of proceeds of Ngwuta’s “unlawful” activities.
He was also accused of instructing a relative to remove some exotic cars from his house in Ebonyi while he was under investigation in violation of the provisions of section 18(1)(b) of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission Act.
He was also accused of retaining huge sums of money in local and foreign currencies which were alleged to be proceeds of his unlawful act contrary to the provisions of the Money Laundering Act.
The prosecution also accused of Ngwuta of concealing the origin of sums of money which were said to have been found at his home during the raid on his house by the operatives of the DSS between October 7 and 8.
Apart from the money laundering charges, Ngwuta was accused of passport offences in counts eight to 14 of the amended charges.
He was accused of being in possession of two valid Diplomatic Passports and another two valid Standard Nigerian Passports, when his house was raided by DSS operatives on October 8, 2016.
He also allegedly submitted multiple applications, made false information of loss of the passports and of his age age with intention to obtain multiple of the passports in violation of various provisions of the Immigration Act 2015.
If a Supreme Court Judge can be so criminally minded, forging and falsifying documents and information, offences for which he may have convicted people as a Judge,then we are in deep trouble in Nigeria. Thank God for PMB... In little ways.
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