The Federal High Court in Abuja has recently confirmed that the country's chief anti-graft Agency, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission(EFCC) has committed a grave error in listing two properties in the United Kingdom belonging to a businessman, Benedict Peters as part of assets owned by former Minister of Petroleum, Diezani Allison Madueke, who is currently being investigated for corrupt practices.

By this decision made on July 6, 2018, the court has upheld Peters' case that the properties wholly belonged to him; were unconnected to the former Petroleum Minister and were unjustifiably included in a list of properties the anti-graft agency tried to seize.

In 2016, through the mutual legal assistance treaty, the EFCC with counterpart crime agencies in the United kingdom were able to obtain an interim forfeiture order from an English court, whereby the two properties in London,  became a subject of criminal investigations.

Frustrated by what he felt was an injustice to him and out to clear his name from been associated with a financial crime investigation, Benedict Peters, who is the CEO of oil conglomerate, Aiteo headed to the courts.

In an application argued on his behalf by Chief Wole Olanipekun, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), the court was urged to vacate the orders because EFCC’s premise for alleging that the properties belonged to Allison-Madueke was manifestly unfounded and not supported by any shred of evidence.

Relying on the contentions that EFCC acted “upon gross misstatements, concealment and misrepresentation of facts,” sought and obtained ex-parte an interim order of forfeiture of the properties, Chief Olanipekun argued that “that the mandatory condition precedent to the grant of the interim forfeiture order was not complied with and due process of law was not followed in obtaining the interim order of forfeiture“.

Read more: http://www.todaysecho.com/court-confirms-efcc-had-erroneously-ascribed-two-properties-to-diezani/

And the clueless & embarrassment of the EFCC have gone international.Just hope the white owners of those property will not sue the Nigerian government.

Confuse people

No wonder they keep on losing.

I'm sure by now the energy with which they started the so called war against Jonathan and his cabinet members have deflated.

In their twisted mind,"let's go and expose them.
Without concrete evidence.
Efcc should henceforth start employing sharp fellas with IQ above 130. That is how intelligent agencies all over the world roll cos they are too dumb.

Folks in the village can do intelligence gathering more than these dumbasses

Half-baked in power.

Mofo

EFCC IS WORKING ACCORDING TO THE ZOMBIES.

Maga Mugu, you see your life?

Media trial can't win you cases. That is why they keep losing all their cases for lack of diligent investigation.