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

A Federal High successful Lagos has convicted and sentenced 1 Igboezue Emeka to 1 period imprisonment for wealth laundering.

The convict was arrested connected February 12, 2025 astatine the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Ikeja, Lagos by operatives of the Nigeria Customs Service, NCS, for mendacious 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 successful a station connected its X grip connected Friday.

EFCC stated that the NCS had, connected the aforesaid day, handed him implicit to its Lagos Zonal Directorate 1 bureau for further investigations and prosecution.

Consequently, helium was arraigned earlier Justice A.O.Owoeye of the Federal High tribunal successful Lagos, connected Friday, April 4, 2025, connected one-count complaint bordering connected wealth laundering.

He pleaded blameworthy to the complaint erstwhile it was work to him.

Following his blameworthy plea, prosecution counsel, Nnaemeka Omewa, called connected Michael Olayemi, an operative of the EFCC, to reappraisal the facts of the case.

Olayemi told the tribunal astir the events that led to the probe of the defendant.

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

The Judge admitted the documents and marked them arsenic exhibits.

Justice Owoeye thereafter recovered Igboezue blameworthy and sentenced him to 1 period imprisonment, with effect from the day of his apprehension connected February 12, 2025.