A federal high court in Abuja has dismissed money laundering allegations filed against the former Attorney-General of the Federation Mohammed Adoke.
While delivering a ruling on a no-case submission filed by the former AGF, Justice Inyang Ekwo, held that the EFCC failed to establish a prima facie case against Adoke.
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) had charged Adoke and Abubakar Aliyu, in 2017 on alleged money laundering to the tune of N300 million.
Although there is no mention of the OPL 245 transaction in this case, the same particulars were also charged by the EFCC before Justice Abubakar Kutigi of the FCT high court in 2020.
While the EFCC admitted before Ekwo that it was a mortgage that Adoke took from Unity Bank, it alleged before Kutigi that the money was a bribe from the sale of the oil block by Malabu Oil & Gas Ltd in 2011.
Justice Ekwo in his ruling on Friday, notes that the EFCC did not provide any evidence to prove the essential elements of the offence against Adoke, who was listed as first defendant.
He upheld the no case submission, discharging and acquitting the former AGF.
This ruling is coming weeks after the FCT high court Jabi, Abuja, dismissed the charges of fraud, bribery and conspiracy filed against the former Attorney-General of the Federation.
(Editor: Anoyoyo Ogiagboviogie)
